How to Use zirconium in a Sentence

zirconium

noun
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  • Some have hard zirconium inserts, so the line doesn't wear a groove.
    — Bob Beacham, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The MOF used in the scientists' water harvester is made of zirconium and adipic acid.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2017
  • Once in its final form, the ceramic was placed in a bath of a molten mixture of copper and zirconium.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2018
  • The molten mixture filled the pores, and the zirconium reacted with the tungsten carbide, replacing the tungsten.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2018
  • The perfect recipe for a solid-state battery could very well involve a dash of zirconium, or a sprinkle of vanadium.
    — Gregory Barber, Wired, 18 Jan. 2022
  • But at $160 per kilogram, zirconium is too expensive for bulk use.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The mine would extract titanium and zirconium less than three miles from the edge of the refuge on an ancient sand dune complex known as Trail Ridge, which forms the Okefenokee Swamp’s eastern boundary.
    — Drew Kann, ajc, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Specialized, weight-saving surf guides with zirconium rings and black frames wrangle braid and keep tangles to a minimum.
    — Alberto Knie, Field & Stream, 22 June 2023
  • Some think that the ring isn't even real, and it is instead made up of cubic zirconium, a cheaper alternative to diamond.
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Bone doesn't allow the ultrasonic sound waves through, but this special blend of yttrium and zirconium does.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2017
  • In some of the variations, the zirconium cladding is coated to minimize reactions.
    — Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2019
  • The metal being zirconium and the organic bit being carbon atoms.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 8 June 2018
  • This causes the core to heat up even faster, and also causes a reaction with the zirconium cladding (which holds the uranium fuel pellets in place), generating hydrogen gas.
    — Daniel Holz, Discover Magazine, 17 Mar. 2011
  • Zirconium is a corrosion-resistant metal that does not easily absorb neutrons, and is used as the cladding to protect fuel rods.
    — Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 2 June 2017
  • The mining project aims to extract titanium and zirconium from the land by removing the minerals and then replacing the soil to previous elevations and contours.
    — Hamza Shaban, Washington Post, 4 June 2022
  • Instead of the original’s zirconium oxide ceramic, the new watch’s case, chronograph pusher and pin buckle are made from Ceratanium.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 26 Feb. 2021
  • While fresh scents may help with the masking part, various types of aluminum, (namely aluminum chloride, aluminum zirconium and aluminium chlorohydrate) are in charge of the minimizing part.
    — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Raw gold is typically muddied with other elements like silver, aluminum, or zirconium, and needs to be processed so that there are less than ten parts per million of other elements.
    — Hazlitt, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The site has only trace amounts of radioactivity, Mr. Barnes said from Australia, but rich deposits of metals like tantalum, used in mobile phones, and zirconium, used in fuel cells and various kinds of electronics.
    — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
  • As the lakebed becomes exposed, toxic dust mixed with metals and metalloids like antimony, copper, zirconium and arsenic become a problem, per Live Science.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2023
  • MOFs, unfortunately, are very expensive, but Yaghi and his team are creating a cheaper version with aluminum instead of zirconium.
    — Angela Chen, The Verge, 8 June 2018
  • Egyptian glasses tended to have higher levels of lanthanum, zirconium and titanium, while Near Eastern glasses tended to have more chromium.
    — Carolyn Wilke, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The coating, made out of zirconium carbide, could solve a major problem in developing hypersonic aircraft.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2017
  • The soil contains arsenic, antimony, copper, zirconium and other dangerous heavy metals, much of it residue from mining activity in the region.
    — New York Times, 7 June 2022
  • It’s currently scheduled to come online in 2023 for not just rare earths but also lithium, gallium, hafnium, zirconium, and other key resources for electronics, magnets, and batteries.
    — John Koetsier, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • In 1968, engineers determined that a zirconium plate, originally installed as a safety measure, had broken loose, causing the partial meltdown.
    — Mark Naida, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2022
  • This lightweight material comprises zirconium oxide and metallic oxides to produce the perfect green tint.
    — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The zirconium oxide selected by Girard-Perregaux is composed of an extremely fine powder, made of micro-beads, each measuring mere fractions of a micron in diameter.
    — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2023
  • For starters, this stick-style antiperspirant uses aluminum zirconium tetrachlorohydrex to reduce underarm wetness for days on end.
    — Rachael Schultz, Verywell Health, 3 Mar. 2023
  • In others, zirconium and even the uranium dioxide are replaced with different materials.
    — Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2019

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