Exploratory experiments in chloride, bromide, and mixed chloride‐fluoride melts always produced dendritic zirconium deposits. Pure fluoride systems consisting of
ZrF4
dissolved in alkali fluoride solvents produced coherent deposits of metal, some as thick as 0.1 in. with no indication of reaching a thickness limit, on electrolysis at 750 °C and 30 ma/cm2 cathode current density. Analysis and material balance experiments showed that reduced compounds were absent in these fluoride systems. Chronopotentiometric measurements indicate that the zirconium is deposited from the tetravalent state in a single four‐electron step which would appear to be irreversible. The addition of
KBF4
,
K2TiF6
, and
Al2O3
to a working zirconium bath results in the deposition in coherent form of the compound
ZrB2
and the alloys
normalZr‐normalTi
and
normalZr‐normalAl
. The
ZrB2
plate was 11 mils thick and showed no evidence of reaching an upper limit of thickness, while both alloys were smooth and fine‐grained in nature, the
normalZr‐normalAl
deposit showing a particularly interesting rhythmic banded structure.