zirconium

English

Chemical element
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Etymology

From a New Latin coinage, from zircon.

Noun

zirconium (uncountable)

Wikipedia

1. a metallic chemical element (symbol Zr) with an atomic number of 40.

Derived terms

cubic zirconium oxide potassium zirconium fluoride zircaloy, zircalloy zirco-, zirconio-, zircono- zirconium carbide

zirconium dioxide zirconium nitride zirconium oxide zirconium tetrachloride

Related terms

zircon zircona zirconia

zirconic zirconolite

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: sirkonium Albanian: zirkonium (sq) Arabic: زيركونيوم (zirkúnyum) m. Armenian: ցիրկոնիում (hy) (cʿirkonium) Basque: zirkonioa Belarusian: цырконiй (cyrkónij) m. Breton: zirkoniom Bulgarian: цирконий (bg) (cirkónij) m. Catalan: zirconi Chinese: 鋯 (gào) Cornish: zerconyum Croatian: cirkonij (hr) Czech: zirkonium (cs) Danish: zirkonium (da) Dutch: zirkonium (nl) n., zirkoon (nl) n. Esperanto: zirkonio (eo) Estonian: tsirkoonium (et) Faroese: zirkon (fo) Finnish: zirkonium (fi) French: zirconium (fr) m. Galician: circonio Georgian: ცირკონიუმი (tsirkoniumi) German: Zirkon (de) n., Zirkonium (de) n. Greek: ζιρκόνιο (el) (zirkónio) n. Hebrew: זירקוניום (zirkónyum) Hungarian: cirkónium (hu) Icelandic: sirkon (is) Interlingua: zirconium Irish: siorcóiniam (ga) Italian: zirconio (it) m.

Japanese: ジルコニウム (ja) (jirukoniumu) Kazakh: цирконий (kk) (cirkoniy) Korean: 지르코늄 (jireukonyum) Latvian: cirkonijs Lithuanian: cirkonis (lt) Macedonian: циркониум (cirkónium) m. Malay: zirkonium (ms) Maltese: żirkonju Mongolian: циркони (cirkóni) Norwegian: zirkonium (no) Polish: cyrkon (pl) m. Portuguese: zircónio (Portugal); zircônio (Brazil) m. Romanian: zirconiu (ro) n. Russian: цирконий (ru) (cirkónij) m. Scottish Gaelic: siorcòiniam Serbian: циркониjум (cirkonijum) m. Slovak: zirkón Slovene: cirkonij (sl) Spanish: circonio (es) m. Swedish: zirkonium (sv) n. Tajik: cirkoni' Tamil: வன்தங்கம் (van-thangam) Thai: เซอร์โคเนียม (soekhōniam) Turkish: zirkonyum (tr) Ukrainian: цирконiй (cyrkónij) m. Uzbek: цирконий (tsirkoniy) Vietnamese: ziriconi Volapük: zirkonin (vo) Welsh: zirconiwm West Frisian: zirkonium

External links

For further etymology and more information refer to: http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/element.php?sym=Zr (A lot of the translations were taken from that site with permission from the author)

See also

• baddeleyite
• hyacinth
• jacinth
• jargon
• ligure

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ziʁ.kɔ.njɔm/

Noun

zirconium m. (usually uncountable)

1. zirconium