nikotyna1939
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scrap zirconium souces
what kind of things that contains zirconium scrap in junkyard
[Edited on 25-3-2019 by nikotyna1939]
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Herr Haber
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You'll find Zirconium in capital letters, question marks and still a bit more in personnal research.
Between Wikipedia and Youtube you should be able to find a couple of uses for Zirconium.
You should arrive to the conclusion that it would be extremely unlikely to find Zirconium anywhere in a junkyard. Maybe some electronic component uses
/ used it but tha amounts well, I'd rather look for gold / silver / PGM and then buy the Zirconium
Well, that is unless it's a nuclear waste junkyard in that case go straight for the fuel elements.
Zirconia / Zircon doesnt count.
PS: You can find vodka drinking shots made of Zirconium from eBay. They're not really expensive (all things considered) and you can probably guess
what they were destined to if you have looked at what Zr is used for.
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Quote: Originally posted by Herr Haber  | | You can find vodka drinking shots made of Zirconium from eBay. They're not really expensive (all things considered) and you can probably guess what
they were destined to if you have looked at what Zr is used for. |
You got me curious, what zirconium shot glasses are used for?
[Edited on 28-3-2019 by TGSpecialist1]
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TheMrbunGee
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For drinking I guess. 
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Herr Haber
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Yeah, for drinking 
Russian guy selling Zirconium sounds a lot to me like old Soviet stockpile. Given the limited number of uses for Zr my first assumption would be
nuclear fuel rods.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Herr Haber | Yeah, for drinking
Russian guy selling Zirconium sounds a lot to me like old Soviet stockpile. Given the limited number of uses for Zr my first assumption would be
nuclear fuel rods. |
So, "hot" shots.
:-)
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If it is, the hafnium content should be exceptionally low (<0.02%)
Would be interesting to check.
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Herr Haber
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I would be willing to sacrifice one of these shots if someone has an idea on how to test for Hafnium presence.
Or absence... it's as good as a test in this case.
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Wizzard1
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Not zirconium metal, but antiperspirants contain a zirconium-based chemical as the active ingredient.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_zirconium_tetrachlor...
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zirconium is present in certain TIG welding electrodes. they are ofton described as 'zirconiated'
Beginning construction of periodic table display
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