{"id":171264,"date":"2023-09-04T09:24:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T14:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/five-interesting-facts-to-know-about-zirconium"},"modified":"2023-09-04T09:24:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T14:24:58","slug":"five-interesting-facts-to-know-about-zirconium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/five-interesting-facts-to-know-about-zirconium","title":{"rendered":"Five Interesting Facts to Know About Zirconium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/five-interesting-facts-to-know-about-zirconium2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zirconium, the metal extracted from the mineral, zircon, may not be well-known, but its remarkable properties make it indispensable in nuclear power, the chemical industry, medicine and more. Since ancient times, zircon \u2014 a word believed to have originated from the Persian <em>zargun<\/em>, meaning gold-like \u2014 has been used in jewellery and decorations.<\/p>\n<p>The IAEA has released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaea.org\/publications\/13653\/the-metallurgy-of-zirconium\"><em>The Metallurgy of Zirconium<\/em><\/a>, a three-volume publication offering a comprehensive overview of the metal, its extraction, properties and applications in nuclear energy. Here are five interesting facts about zirconium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zirconium, the metal extracted from the mineral, zircon, may not be well-known, but its remarkable properties make it indispensable in nuclear power, the chemical industry, medicine and more. Since ancient times, zircon \u2014 a word believed to have originated from the Persian zargun, meaning gold-like \u2014 has been used in jewellery and decorations. The IAEA [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}