Explore Zircons through 9 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Zircons meaning
plural of zircon
Using Zircons
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of zircon
- In the example corpus, zircons often appears in combinations such as: zircons in, detrital zircons.
Context around Zircons
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Zircons
- In this selection, "zircons" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, detrital, brown, blue and provide stand out and add context to how "zircons" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include although some zircons in rocks and and blue zircons by heating. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "zircons" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with zircons
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
These detrital zircons are taken from the sands of major modern rivers and their drainage basins. (16 words)
Common brown zircons can be transformed into colorless and blue zircons by heating to 800 to 1000 °C. (18 words)
The two most-ancient zircons in the study suggest that the field could be up to 4.2 billion years old. (21 words)
Fortunately, in the Oman sequence, so too does a volcanic ash horizon from which zircons provide a very precise age of 541 ± 0.3 mya (calculated on the decay rate of uranium to lead). (34 words)
In addition, the oxygen isotopic compositions of some of these zircons have been interpreted to indicate that more than 4.4 billion years ago there was already water on the surface of the Earth. (34 words)
At the time it was not realised that schorl and tourmaline were the same mineral (it was only about 1703 that it was discovered that some colored gems weren't zircons ). (31 words)
Example sentences (9)
Common brown zircons can be transformed into colorless and blue zircons by heating to 800 to 1000 °C.
Although some zircons in rocks of western Australia have been dated as having formed over four billion years ago, the original rocks in which they formed have been eroded away.
The two most-ancient zircons in the study suggest that the field could be up to 4.2 billion years old.
At the time it was not realised that schorl and tourmaline were the same mineral (it was only about 1703 that it was discovered that some colored gems weren't zircons ).
Fortunately, in the Oman sequence, so too does a volcanic ash horizon from which zircons provide a very precise age of 541 ± 0.3 mya (calculated on the decay rate of uranium to lead).
In addition, the oxygen isotopic compositions of some of these zircons have been interpreted to indicate that more than 4.4 billion years ago there was already water on the surface of the Earth.
Phanerozoic (540 Ma to present) and Precambrian ( 4.6 Ga to 540 Ma ) had primarily passive margins and detrital zircons (and orogenic granites ), whereas the tenure of Pangaea contained few.
The name derives from the Persian zargun meaning golden-colored. citation This word is corrupted into " jargoon ", a term applied to light-colored zircons.
These detrital zircons are taken from the sands of major modern rivers and their drainage basins.
Common combinations with zircons
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- zircons in 2×
- detrital zircons 2×