SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1977
STP27999S

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The element, zirconium, was discovered in 1789 by Klaproth, but the metal itself was not isolated until 1824 when Berzelius prepared a brittle and very impure metal powder by reduction of potassium fluorozirconate with potassium metal. A hundred years later Van Arkel, DeBoer, and Fast, working at the University of Leydin and the Phillip's Lamp Works at Einhoven, Holland, produced a much purer and ductile metal using the iodide decomposition process. The “Iodide Crystal Bar” process survives today as a method of purifying sponge zirconium and hafnium.

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Developed by Committee: B10
Pages: 3–19
DOI: 10.1520/STP27999S
ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-4710-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-0505-8