A new determination of the solar abundance of zirconium has been made using equivalent-width data measured on the Jungfraujoch solar atlas together with new oscillator strengths derived from measurements of atomic lifetimes and branching ratios for 34 lines of Zr I and 24 lines of Zr II. Excellent agreement is found between the results derived from Zr I and Zr II lines and also with recent meteoritic results. The mean abundance of zirconium in the sun is found to be A/Zr/ equals 2.56 plus or minus 0.05.
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Biémont et al. (1981) studied this question.