Zirconium for use in jewelry. Zirconia is a component in some abrasives, such as grinding wheels and sandpaper. A small fraction of the zircon is converted to the metal, which finds various niche applications. Because of zirconium's excellent resistance to corrosion, it is often used as an alloying agent in materials that are exposed to aggressive environments, such as surgical appliances, light filaments, and watch cases. The high reactivity of zirconium with oxygen at high temperatures is exploited in some specialised applications such as explosive primers and as getters in vacuum tubes. The same property is (probably) the purpose of including
Basque grammar rule which assigns focus to an element in pre-verbal position. The affirmative use of "ba-" (not to confused with the homophonous subordinating prefix meaning 'if') is normally used with synthetic finite forms, thus also "John badator" or "Badator John" 'John is coming' (as opposed to "John dator" " 'John" is coming'), "Badu dirua" (or in western Basque "Badauka dirua") 'She has money'. In most varieties of Basque, affirmative "ba-" is not so used with compound tenses or compound verbs, however. To place a compound verb form (or its affirmation) in focus, it may be enough to place the main sentence