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Zirconium in Zircon

 
 
Reply Sun 3 Jul, 2016 10:18 am
Which rare earth element replaces Zirconium in Zircon:
(a) Thorium
(b) Cerium
(c) Hafnium
(d) None of these
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Reply Sun 3 Jul, 2016 01:14 pm
@zeeshanzaz,
only cerium is a ree, and it only occurs in zircon in lab experiments at doping.

You want yttrium , lutetium or samarium. We have a condition in lanthanides called shrinking of the ions so cerium usually occurs in "Defect lattices " of thinks like phosphapte rocks and the sort.
We use Titanium as a zircon clock because it only occurs in the defect as a function of PT
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