Thorium is element 90, an actinoid of the f block, in period 7. Its ground-state configuration is [Rn] 6d2 7s2, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 4.
It was discovered in 1829, by Berzelius.
Name origin: Thor, the Scandinavian god of thunder.
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