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noun

Zircon n.

(Min.) A mineral consisting predominantly of zirconium silicate (Zr2SiO4) occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or gray color. It consists of silica and zirconia. A red variety, used as a gem, is called hyacinth. Colorless, pale-yellow or smoky-brown varieties from Ceylon are called jargon.

An imitation gemstone made of cubic zirconia.

Zircon syenite, a coarse-grained syenite containing zircon crystals and often also elaeolite. It is largely developed in Southern Norway.

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Etymology of 'Zircon'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Zircon" Quotes from Famous Books

... frequently, in this formation, with the exception of chromic iron, occur not in the serpentine but in the veins therein contained; for instance, crystals of dolomite are found deeper in the rock as they occur in the denser soapstone, which becomes so at a more or less considerable depth, with spinel, zircon, etc., of the granular limestone. They occur generally in pockets within five feat from the surface, but they can hardly be called included minerals, as they are rather, as their mention suggests, pockets, and adjacent or in contact with the intruded ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882 • Various

... its level, the metal could not be extracted with advantage. The position in which it occurs is similar to that in which tin ore presents itself in Saxony; and along with it, the natives, when searching for gems, discover garnets, corundum, white topazes, zircon, and tourmaline. ...

— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent

Words linked to "Zircon" : mineral, zirconium, jargoon, zirconium silicate, Zr, atomic number 40, jargon, jacinth, hyacinth