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Zirconium was discovered by Martin Heinrich Klaproth, a German chemist, while analyzing the composition of the mineral zircon - ZrSiO4 in 1789. The color of natural zircon is sometimes silmilar to color of gold.

The zirconium dioxide -ZrO2 is white.

Zirconium metal (obtained by Berzelius in 1824) is similat to a steel.

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