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Tungsten   /tˈəŋstən/   Listen
Tungsten

noun
1.
A heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite.  Synonyms: atomic number 74, W, wolfram.



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"Tungsten" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the state are producing gold, silver, lead, copper, quicksilver, zinc, arsenic, antimony, molybdenum, [Page 12] nickel, cobalt, tungsten, titanium, bismuth, sulphur, selenium, tellurium, tin ...
— A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 • Ithamar Howell

... eagerly as he brought forth one of the flat, three-cell nickel-plated holders of tiny batteries, with the white-backed and tungsten-filamented incandescent light set ...
— The Moving Picture Boys on the War Front - Or, The Hunt for the Stolen Army Films • Victor Appleton

... "This is a calcium-tungsten screen," remarked Kennedy, adjusting now what I know to be a Crookes' tube on the other side of the body itself, so that the order was: the tube, the body, the screen, and the oblong box. Without a further word we continued to ...
— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve

... nation without machinery for its production, and without city markets and railroads and ships for its distribution. Machinery could not be made, nor ships and locomotives built, without steel. For the manufacture of steel there must be iron and fuel and tungsten and other materials. And for all these things there must be inventors and skilled mechanics, and to produce these there must be schools. And so we could go on indefinitely to show how the war made us feel our interdependence. What we need to understand, however, ...
— Community Civics and Rural Life • Arthur W. Dunn



Words linked to "Tungsten" :   atomic number 74, scheelite, metal, metallic element, wolframite



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