What is zirconium? Today, we will learn about some basic knowledge about zirconium together.

Zirconium is a silver gray metal and zirconium looks like steel and has lustre. Zirconium can easily absorb hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen. Zirconium has strong affinity on oxygen.
The surface of zirconium is easy to form a layer of oxide film has lustre. So the appearance of zirconium is similar with that of steel. Zirconium has corrosion resistant, but zirconium can be dissolved in hydrofluoric acid and aqua regia; Zirconium has reaction with nonmetallic elements and many metal elements and produces solid solution. Zirconium has   good plasticity and is easy to be processed into zirconium plate and wire etc.. Zirconium can absorb a great deal of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and other gases during heating and can be used as hydrogen storage materials. Zirconium has good corrosion resistance, which is close to that of niobium and tantalum.

Zirconium is indispensable material to the development of atomic energy industry and it can be used for reactor core structure material. Zirconium powder is easy to burn in the air, so it can be used as a detonator and smokeless powder. The armor steel, cannon forgings steel, stainless and heat-resisting steel that containing zirconium are important materials to be used to manufacture armored vehicles, tanks, artillery and armor weapons.

We learn about basic knowledge about zirconium from zirconium characteristics and zirconium applications.
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