Mineral gem

Usage examples of zircon.

His withery face gleeful, Marle was watching Jarvin work at the zircons.

Sprinkling a greenish powder into a tall hydrometer jar, The Shadow filled it with water and poured the zircons into it.

Zircon and Scotty had moved another mile seaward as soon as the vinta was launched.

Zircon found the route from Zamboanga to Jolo and gave Scotty the first compass setting.

British government in 1983 gave secret approval for a massive undertaking, the development of their own Sigint satellite, codenamed Zircon.

This problem, an urgent matter of anti-submarine warfare, had taken big Hobart Zircon and little Julius Weiss, both of whom had rooms on the third floor of the big Brant house, to sea for many weeks with a Navy task force.

Zircons appear in most rocks apart from basalts and are extremely durable, surviving every natural process but subduction.

Now Zircon swung a beamlike arm and Joe bounced against the doorframe.

Only zircons and demantoid garnets approach the distinctive adamantine luster of diamonds, and they reflect only about half the light.

Rick saw one of the crowd near Zircon lift a black box, and then came the terrible, deafening blast of Susie's scream!

Even when the rock is cooked by deep heat, becoming metamorphic - changing its chemical structure - the crystal of zircon survives.

Originally scheduled for a 1988 launch, Zircon was to be disguised as a military communications satellite and was to focus primarily on Europe, Russia, and the Middle East.

Blast was what space cadets on television said when a meteorite carried away a control surface, or the navigator turned out to be a space pirate from the planet Zircon.

The chests at her feet were loaded with a mass of jewelled trash--diamante anklets, gilt clasps, tiaras and chains of zircon, rhinestone necklaces and pendants, huge earrings of cultured pearl, overflowing from one chest to another and spilling onto the salvers placed on the floor like vessels to catch a quicksilver rainfall.

They glowed like high-quality zircon and hessonite, separated by thinner streaks and dots of blue-white ammonia clouds.