Zirconium powders find application in various pyrotechnic areas. They are a source of heat for squibs and ignition devices for a variety of uses including automotive airbag inflators.
For the manufacture of highly effective getters, usually activated by dehydration; as a zirconium component in powder metallurgy; for flares and tracers in pyrotechnics.
In vacuum technology as a getter material; in powder metallurgy as an alloying constituent; in pyrotechnics for the manufacture of high energy initiators, fuzes and thermal batteries.