Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Zirconium dioxid (ZrO2), occurring in tabular monoclinic crystals from yellow to brown or black in color: first found in the gem-sands of Rakwana. Ceylon, and later in Brazil (there called brazilite) and in Sweden.
Wiktionary
- n. mineralogy A rare zirconium oxide mineral occurring in a variety of monoclinic prismatic crystal forms.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a mineral consisting of zirconium oxide
Etymologies
- After Joseph Baddeley, who described the original Sri Lankan find, + -ite. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Russia and Brazil also have large deposits of baddeleyite.”
“Zirconium is found in two minerals, zircon (zirconium silicate, ZrSiO4) and baddeleyite (zirconium oxide, ZrO2).”
“Zircon is found in beach sands, baddeleyite (ZrO2).”
“They contain the natural zirconium oxide, baddeleyite or brazilite, mixed with the silicate, the ore as produced carrying about 80 per cent zirconia (ZrO_ {2}).”
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
galkhaite, xanthoconite, pyrostilpnite, polybasite, pyrargyrite, djurleite, digenite, covellite, chalcocite, cerargirite, acanthite, aeschynite and 2608 more...
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I Can't Believe It's Not Listed
Words that, at the I put them here, weren't being listed by anyone else in the entire universe.
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hernesheir Mineral name for zirconium oxide, ZrO2. Jun 2, 2010