See also: Zirconium

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Chemical element
Zr
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Zirconium cube and crystals.

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From a New Latin coinage, from zircon. Doublet of jargonium.

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zirconium (countable and uncountable, plural zirconiums)

  1. A chemical element (symbol Zr) with an atomic number of 40, a strong, lustrous, grey-white transition metal mainly used as a refractory and opacifier.
    • 2005, Tally Hall (lyrics and music), “Ruler of Everything”, in Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum[1]:
      Do you like how I dance? / I've got zirconium pants / Consequential enough / To slip you into a trance

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zirconium

  1. zirconium

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zirconium m (uncountable)

  1. zirconium

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Chemical element
Zr
Previous: yttrium (Y)
Next: niobium (Nb)

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zircōnium n (genitive zircōniī); second declension

  1. zirconium

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative zircōnium zircōnia
genitive zircōniī zircōniōrum
dative zircōniō zircōniīs
accusative zircōnium zircōnia
ablative zircōniō zircōniīs
vocative zircōnium zircōnia