GT Zirkon

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    Currently, zircons are typically dated by uranium-lead (U-Pb), fission-track, cathodoluminescence, and U+Th/He techniques.
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    Chemical substitution and coordination polyhedra explain this common feature of minerals.
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    Australia leads the world in zircon mining, producing 37% of the world total and accounting for 40% of world EDR for the mineral.
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    Zircon often contains traces of radioactive elements in its structure, which causes it to be metamict.
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    The English word “zircon” is derived from “Zirkon”, which is the German adaptation of this word.
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    The green coloring in many rounded pebbles usually indicates the Zircon is radioactive variety.
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    The abundance and diversity of minerals is controlled directly by their chemistry, in turn dependent on elemental abundances in the Earth.
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    The dark brown to black color observed in most Zircon crystals is caused from iron oxide impurities.
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    Zirconium is a chemical element with symbol Zr and atomic number 40.
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    The name zircon is taken from the name of the mineral zircon, the most important source of zirconium.
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    Minerals are classified by key chemical constituents; the two dominant systems are the Dana classification and the Strunz classification.
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    The name derives from the Persian zargun meaning gold-hued; this word is corrupted into “jargoon”, a term applied to light-colored zircons.
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    Zircon is ubiquitous in the crust of Earth and it occurs as a common accessory mineral in igneous rocks, in metamorphic rocks and as detrital grains in sedimentary rocks.
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    Yellow, orange and red zircon is also known as “hyacinth”, from the flower hyacinthus, whose name is of Ancient Greek origin.
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    On the Isle of Skye near Ireland, is a chapel dedicated to St. Columbus, and on the altar is a round crystalline blue stone held sacred to weather and health.
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    Recent experiments, for example, have shown that crystals grow five times faster when their supersaturated solution is subjected to frequencies of 10 to 100 cycles a second.
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GT Zirkon is an extravagant sans serif workhorse. It blends the worlds of rational tool and ornamentation by applying techniques used to optimize type for small sizes in a refined way.

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Typeface features

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