Zirconium is indispensable in the production of nuclear energy, particularly as a cladding for long cylindrical fuel rods inside nuclear reactors. There are several reasons why zirconium is an optimal ...

Sennheiser’s new IE 600 earbuds are made from zirconium to give them exceptional toughness and will cost roughly $785 when they launch in the spring.

In 1923, hafnium was identified (using X-ray analysis) as being distinct from zirconium, and recognized as an element in its own right by the Dutch physicist Dirk Coster and Nobel Prize-winning ...

Very excited to see what properties the new zirconium cluster will show," said Dr. Dongsik Nam, the first author of the study. "This research can be extended to various metal clusters in MOFs ...

Zirconium is a silver-gray transition metal, a type of element that is malleable and ductile and easily forms stable compounds. It is also highly resistant to corrosion. Zirconium and its alloys ...

The chief source of zirconium is zircon and more than 1.5 million tonnes of this mineral are extracted each year, mainly in Australia and South Africa. Zircon sand is traditionally a refractory ...

High temperatures cause the zirconium coating that covers the surface of the fuel rods to blister and balloon. In time, that ultra-hot zirconium metal starts to melt.

This article focuses on the electrorefining process in molten fluorides to selectively recover zirconium from one Zr-based metallic alloy involved in the field of nuclear energy: Zircaloy-4. Firstly, ...