Vocabulary : Zirconate to Zizel

Zirconate : A salt of zirconic acid.
Zirconia : The oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. On account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the Drummomd light.
Zirconic : Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, zirconium; as, zirconic oxide; zirconic compounds.
Zirconium : A rare element of the carbon-silicon group, intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, obtained from the mineral zircon as a dark sooty powder, or as a gray metallic crystalline substance. Symbol Zr. Atomic weight, 90.4.
Zircono : See Zirco-.

Zirconoid : A double eight-sided pyramid, a form common with tetragonal crystals; -- so called because this form often occurs in crystals of zircon.
Zither : An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.]
Zittern : See Cittern.
Zizania : A genus of grasses including Indian rice. See Indian rice, under Rice.
Zizel : The suslik.

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