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The mineral is zircon, and scientists have found bits of it that formed 4.37 billion years ago, not too long after the proto-Earth's epic collision with a Mars-sized object that spawned our moon.

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The mineral zircon is the oldest known piece of Earth existing on the surface today. The oldest bits date back as far as 4.37 billion years — not too far from the age of Earth itself at about 4. ...

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Ukraine claims it has evidence Russia fired an advanced hypersonic missile – one that experts say is almost impossible to shoot down – for the first time in the almost 2-year-old war.

The Zircon was originally conceived as a hypersonic anti-ship missile, and Russia has been testing it from its frigates and submarines since 2020, said Mattias Eken, ...

A preliminary analysis concluded that Russia hit Kyiv last week with the hypersonic Zircon missile, its first use in the nearly two-year-old war, the head of a Kyiv research institute said on ...

Zircon also has tiny amounts of the radioactive element uranium in its crystal structure, which decays over a long period of time and changes into lead, Prave noted.

Zircon is mostly minded in Sri Lanka and Australia, the Geological Institute reports. Other countries that mine zircon include Myanmar, Vietnam and Cambodia. What color is my birthstone?

Zircon transformed the home improvement industry with the introduction of the world's first electronic stud finder in 1980.