ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ZIRCON
From German Zirkon, from French jargon, via Italian and Arabic, from Persian zargūn golden.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ZIRCON»
Discover the use of
zircon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
zircon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Healing Crystals and Gemstones: From Amethyst to
Zircon
An illustrated encyclopedic explanation of the therapeutic uses of crystals and gems.
Flora Peschek-Bohmer, Gisela Schreiber, 2002
2
The Fourth Hutton Symposium on the Origin of Granites and ...
ABSTRACT: Zircon is a very interesting accessory mineral, a kind of 'crustal
diamond', easily recycled and recording through large morphological variability
the main rock-forming events. Since 1985, a systematic study of chemical
variability of ...
Bernard Barbarin, W. E. Stephens, 2001
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Rock-Forming Minerals: Orthosilicates, Volume 1A:
(1954), prior to its discovery as the natural species hafnon (Correia Neves et al.,
1974); solid solution was reported between Hf-Zr and U-Zr analogues of zircon
by Caruba et al. (1975b) who also noted that Ge enters the zircon structure only
at ...
William Alexander Deer, Robert Andrew Howie, J. Zussman, 1982
Zircon Color: Colorless, yellow, brown, orange, red, violet, blue, green Color of
streak: White Mohs' hardness: 6Z-7X Density: 3.93-4.73 Cleavage: lndistinct
Fracture: Conchoidal, very brittle Crystal system: (Tetragonal) short, stocky four-
sided ...
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Zircon, Monazite and Other Minerals Used in the Production ...
OCCURRENCES OF MONAZITE—Com'muen Associated Minerals Wyoming
Bald Mountain District ______ __ Placer deposits ______ __ Magnetite, chromite
, ilmenite, garnet, olivine, zircon, quartz, gold Colorado Associated Minerals ...
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Foseco Ferrous Foundryman's Handbook
The chilling effect of zircon sand can be used to produce favourable thermal
gradients that promote directional solidification giving sounder castings. The
thermal expansion coefficient of zircon is very low (Fig. 12.2) so that expansion
defects ...
7
Foseco Foundryman's Handbook
Table 2.3 Properties of non-silica sands (compared with silica) Property Silica
Zircon Chromiie Olivine Zircon, ZrSiO4 Zircon sand has a high specific gravity (
4.6) and high thermal conductivity which together cause castings to cool faster
than ...
8
Geochronology: Linking the Isotopic Record with Petrology ...
scale in-situ measurements on accessory phases, of which zircon is the most
important. The challenge then is to link the growth of accessory phases, providing
the age information, and the major phases providing the P-T information.
Derek Vance, Wolfgang Müller, Igor M. Villa, 2003
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Field Guide to Rocks & Minerals of Southern Africa
ZIRCON ZrSiO4 Composition: silicate Crystal system: tetragonal Hardness: 7.5
Specific gravity: 4.6-4.7 Streak: white Lustre: vitreous, adamantine 452: Zircon
crystal, i cm, from Bull's Run, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Named from the
Arabic ...
10
Earth Processes: Reading the Isotopic Code
This is due to preferential exclusion of 230jh, relative to U, from the zircon
structure, the opposite of the effect documented in monazite. Preferential removal
of U relative to Pb seems unlikely since U is chemically bound in the zircon lattice
, ...
Asish Basu, Stan Hart, 1996
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ZIRCON»
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zircon is used in the context of the following news items.
Zircon crystals show Earth's magnetic shield is at least four billion …
Scientists at Rochester University analyzed tiny zircon crystals embedded in rock mountains in Jack Hills in Western Australia. These crystals are formed by ... «Science Recorder, Jul 15»
4000 Bags of Zircon Sand Missing … CID Investigates 2 Indians
Our investigation reveals that one of the accused, Deva Kumar, who was in charge of the store where the Zircon got missing, has left the country after his ... «Sierra Express Media, Jul 15»
Sri Lanka goes for zircon flour production
EconomyNext – Sri Lanka's state-owned minerals sands producer has decided to go for value addition and make zircon flour possibly in a joint venture with a ... «EconomyNext, Jul 15»
Diatreme Resources secures $3M funding for Cyclone Zircon Project
Diatreme Resources (ASX:DRX) has signed a $3 million convertible note facility with a private Chinese investor to advance its flagship Cyclone Zircon Project in ... «Proactive Investors Australia, May 15»
Lead hokes the age
Zircon from East Antarctica with nanospheres of metallic lead under GFZ's transmissionelectron-microscope TEM. The rock sample is more than 3,4 billion years ... «Phys.Org, Apr 15»
Iluka boosts zircon and rutile output, may restart WA operations
Iluka said its combined production reached 535 000 t in 2014, compared with 471 000 t in 2013, reflecting an increase in zircon and rutile output, which was ... «Creamer Media's Mining Weekly, Jan 15»
Child playing with matches sparked Alexandria apartment fire …
Fire officials say the child was experimenting with matches in a closet on the ground floor of the Morningside Apartments, off of Zircon Drive in Alexandria, when ... «WJLA, Jan 15»
Rare Mineral Discovered in Ancient Meteorite Impact Crater
Researchers discovered the mineral, called reidite, at the Rock Elm impact structure in western Wisconsin. Reidite is a dense form of zircon, one of the hardiest ... «Live Science, Nov 14»
Roskill: Zircon Markets Signal Steady Recovery by End of 2014
Zircon consumption is at its lowest point for a decade, having dropped by over 30% to 1Mt since its 2011 peak, but there are signs that demand in 2014 is set to ... «PR Newswire, Sep 14»
Early Earth less hellish than previously thought
This alternate view of Earth's first geologic eon, called the Hadean, has gained substantial new support from the first detailed comparison of zircon crystals that ... «Vanderbilt University News, Sep 14»
