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Owing to zirconium’s affinity for oxygen and nitrogen, which cause embrittlement, the isolation of the pure metal long eluded a satisfactory conclusion.
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Dutta, S.K., Lodhari, D.R. (2018). Zirconium. In: Extraction of Nuclear and Non-ferrous Metals. Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5172-2_4
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