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Zirconia

noun
1.
A white crystalline oxide; used in refractories and in insulation and abrasives and enamels and glazes.  Synonyms: zirconium dioxide, zirconium oxide.





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"Zirconia" Quotes from Famous Books



... same year as Klaproth detected uranium, he also isolated zirconia or zirconium oxide from the mineral variously known as zircon, hyacinth, jacynth and jargoon; but he failed to obtain the metal, this being first accomplished some years later by Berzelius, who decomposed the double potassium zirconium fluoride ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 - "Chtelet" to "Chicago" • Various


Words linked to "Zirconia" :   oxide, zirconium oxide


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