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Wolfram   /wˈʊlfrˌæm/   Listen
Wolfram

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, tungsten, W.



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"Wolfram" Quotes from Famous Books



... bestowing her treasures of flora and fauna as well as underground ones, for several gold and tin mines are being worked, whilst lead, copper, zinc, antimony, arsenic and many other metals are constantly being found, besides some rich veins of wolfram, although a real bed of the latter ore has not yet ...
— My Friends the Savages - Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) • Giovanni Battista Cerruti
... the crusaders, who travelled so far and saw so much, are not recognizable as such in these poems. The epic poetry, which describes armor and costumes so fully, does not attempt more than a sketch of outward nature; and even the great Wolfram von Eschenbach scarcely anywhere gives us an adequate picture of the scene on which his heroes move. From these poems it would never be guessed that their noble authors in all countries inhabited or ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various


Words linked to "Wolfram" :   iron manganese tungsten, scheelite, metal, metallic element


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