page_title: Zirconium nitride
section_title: Uses
hierarchical_section_title: Zirconium nitride / Uses
caption_attribution_description: English: Zirconium nitride coated punches used to cut holes in plastic.
context_page_description: Zirconium nitride is an inorganic compound used in a variety of ways due to its properties.
context_section_description: Zirconium nitride is a hard ceramic material similar to titanium nitride and is a cement-like refractory material. Thus it is used in refractories, cermets and laboratory crucibles. When applied using the physical vapor deposition coating process it is commonly used for coating medical devices, industrial parts (notably drill bits), automotive and aerospace components and other parts subject to high wear and corrosive environments. When alloyed with Al, the electronic structure develops from local octahedral bond symmetry of cubic ZrN that distorts for increasing Al content into more complex bonding and higher hardness.
  Zirconium nitride was suggested as a hydrogen peroxide fuel tank liner for rockets and aircraft.
caption: Zirconium nitride coated cutters.
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