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| —n | |
| a reddish-brown, grey, green, blue, or colourless hard mineral consisting of zirconium silicate in tetragonal crystalline form with hafnium and some rare earths as impurities. It occurs principally in igneous rocks and is an important source of zirconium, zirconia, and hafnia: it is used as a gemstone and a refractory. Formula: ZrSiO4 | |
| [C18: from German Zirkon, from French jargon, via Italian and Arabic, from Persian zargūn golden] | |
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Word Origin & History
zircon
1794, from Ger. Zirkon (cf. Fr. jargon, It. giargone), from Arabic zarqun "cinnabar, bright red," from Pers. zargun "gold-colored," from Avestan zari- "gold-colored," from zar "gold." Zirconium, metallic chemical element, first attested 1808, coined by Ger. chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817)
in 1789; so called because it was found in zircon.
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| zircon (zûr'kŏn') Pronunciation Key
A brown, reddish to bluish, gray, green, or colorless tetragonal mineral that occurs in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks, and especially in sand. The colorless varieties are valued as gems. Chemical formula: ZrSiO4. |
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Example sentences
The source rocks for these zircon crystals have not yet been found.
Zircon, the principal ore material, was mined at many locations worldwide.
Hafnium and zirconium occur together in the ore mineral zircon.
The ash contains minerals such as zircon that can be dated precisely from the radioactive decay of some of their components.
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