Examples of zircon in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The first queen to wear the crown, made of 14-carat gold with a blue zircon at its tip, seven pigeon-blood rubies and 650 white sapphires, was Harriett Griffith in 1922. — oregonlive, 10 June 2022 The zircon missile can travel nine times the speed of sound, according to intelligence on the new weapon. — Fox News, 28 May 2022 Pearce used a laser to vaporize the zircon, then analyzed its chemical composition. — Simon Akam, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2022 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 See More

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