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Dixon Chew is a leading UK manufacturer of Reactive Zirconium Chemicals. Our modern, well-equipped manufacturing facility located in Dewsbury has been built for flexible and reliable processing aimed at minimising order turn round times, maximising yields and reducing our environmental impact.
Zirconium, symbol Zr on the Periodic Table, is a metal most often found in and extracted from the silicate mineral zirconium silicate and the oxide mineral baddeleyite.irconium was discovered by German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth, who first isolated an oxide of the mineral zircon in 1789. The first metallic powder was produced in 1824 by a Swedish Chemist, Jons J. Berzelius.