Thoriated tungsten (tungsten, 98% thorium oxide, 2%) is a widely used electrode material for inert-gas arc-welding. A subsecond pulse-heating technique was applied to rod specimens; radiance temperature was measured by highspeed pyrometry. Literature values of the temperature dependence of the normal spectral emissivity of tungsten were used to obtain true temperatures, with the melting point of thoriated tungsten as a calibration point. Experimental results obtained in the temperature range from 3600 K to the melting point (3693 K) are presented and discussed, along with data obtained during the initial part of the free cooling period. The electrical resistivity results show a regular behavior up to the melting point, indicating that thoria remains an insulator up to 3680 K. During heating, a heat capacity anomaly is found near 3666 K, interpreted as the melting point of thoria. During cooling, two anomalies are found, the first one with a peak near 3660 K and a second one (possibly a Frenkel disorder) with a peak near 3148 K.