Zircon

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Properties

Formula ZrSiO4
Abbreviation Zrn
Variants Tm doped, Nd doped, Er doped, Eu doped, kimberlite, Dy doped, synthetic, Sm doped, Ho doped, metamict, Hf, Yb doped
Classifications Minerals containing SiO4, Zircon (group)
Member Cyrtolite
Luminescence emitters Ce, Dy, Er, Eu, Fe, Gd, Ho, Intrinsic, Mn, Nd, Pr, SiO3, SiO4, SiOm[n-], Sm, Tb, Tm, U, Unspecified, UO2, Yb
Spectra Luminescence (25), SXES (1)
IMA Status Grandfathered (pre-IMA), 1789
Search other databases webmineral.com, mindat.org, rruf.info, mineralienatlas.de, Handbook of Mineralogy, American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database
Related materials Cyrtolite, Reidite
Crystal symmetry Tetragonal, Point group 4/mmm, Space group I41/amd (#141)
Tags Mineral, Silicate, Synthetic, Variety, Silicate , Synthetic

Composition

Element Atoms
Si 1
O 4
Zr 1
Total: 6

References

Reference
Lines Spectra Images
CSIRO SXES database 0 1 1
Cesbron et al. 1995 46 0 0
Finch et al. 2004 20 0 0
Gaft et al. 1998 1 0 0
Gaft et al. 2005 31 11 11
Götze 2000c 2 1 1
Hamblen 2003 0 0 4
Ilchenko et al. 2025 3 0 0
Lenz et al. 2015 186 7 0
Mariano 1978 2 0 0
CSIRO CL spectra 2011 1 1 0
CSIRO CL spectra 2024 4 1 0
Rahman et al. 2020 0 2 0
Tarashchan 1978 20 0 0
Torpy et al. 2020, luminescence 7 2 1
Torpy et al. 2020, luminescence, other 0 2 0