Examples of zirconium

• Zirconium and its alloys are highly reactive toward oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen.

• The same is true for the vanadium, rubidium and zirconium concentrations in the sediment.

• Figure 21 presents the magnetic field dependence of the gas and metal ion contents for cathodes made of yttrium and zirconium and oxygen as the fill gas.

• The zirconium water reaction was implicated in the generation of the hydrogen, which subsequently exploded and blew the top off.

• Space age materials such as uranium, beryllium, zirconium and titanium are of great value to the hospital service and for specialised machinery used elsewhere.

• There are a lot of metallurgical problems; many odd metals like beryllium or zirconium have to be produced and examined to see if they have suitable properties.

• Due to the lanthanide contraction of the elements in the sixth period, zirconium and hafnium have nearly identical ionic radii.

• It is an unusual ceramic, having relatively high thermal and electrical conductivities, properties it shares with isostructural titanium diboride and zirconium diboride.