Word Meanings - ZIRCONO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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• ZIRCONA
  Zirconia.
• ZIRCONIC
  Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, zirconium; as, zirconic oxide; zirconic compounds. Zirconic acid, an acid of zirconium analogous to carbonic and silicic acids, known only in its salts.
• ZIRCONIUM
  A rare element of the carbon-silicon group, intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, obtained from the mineral zircon as a dark sooty powder, or as a gray metallic crystalline substance. Symbol Zr. Atomic weight, 90.4.
• ZIRCONO
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• ZIRCONIA
  The oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the Drummomd light.
• ZIRCON
  A mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or gray color. It consists of silica and zirconia. A red variety, used as a gem, is called hyacinth. Colorless, pale-yellow or smoky- brown varieties from Ceylon are called
• ZIRCOFLUORIDE
  A double fluoride of zirconium and hydrogen, or some other positive element or radical; as, zircofluoride of sodium.
• ZIRCON LIGHT
  A light, similar to the calcium light, produced by incandescent zirconia.
• ZIRCONOID
  A double eight-sided pyramid, a form common with tetragonal crystals; -- so called because this form often occurs in crystals of zircon.
• ZIRCO-
  A combining form designating zirconium as an element of certain double compounds; zircono-; as in zircofluoric acid, sodium zircofluoride.
• ZIRCONATE
  A salt of zirconic acid.