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On Zircons and Other Minerals Contained in Sand

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OWING to recent attempts to employ the brilliant light of incandescent zirconia and allied earths instead of that of gas or electricity, attention has been drawn to the sources of the rarer earths.

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DICK, A. On Zircons and Other Minerals Contained in Sand . Nature 36, 91–92 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036091b0

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