Examples of zircon in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web As zircon forms in cooling magma, its crystal structure contains uranium but no lead. — Scott Hershberger, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2020 An analysis of zircon crystals more than 4 billion years old from the Jack Hills in Western Australia provided an early test. — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 22 Apr. 2020 In 2015, Tarduno and his colleagues reported finding signs of Earth’s magnetic field from more than 4 billion years ago, inside zircon crystals from Australia. — Alexandra Witze, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2019 Traditional paleomagnetic measurements using superconducting sensors had found faint fields preserved in the zircons, a clue that Earth had a magnetic field half a billion years earlier than expected. — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 22 Apr. 2020 Other scientists recently challenged that paper, saying the magnetic minerals inside the zircons could not be accurately dated. — Alexandra Witze, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2019 Two minerals, zircon and monazite, held the key to the crater’s age. — Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2020 Uranium-lead zircon dating has superseded the much less accurate argon-argon dating, and margins of error that used to span millions of years now span thousands, greatly increasing the resolution of the data. — National Geographic, 18 Dec. 2019 Specifically, the multi-heavy mineral prospect consists of abrasives garne and epidote, and zircon, magnetite and gold. — Elwood Brehmer, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Nov. 2019

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