: a gray-white heavy high-melting ductile hard polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and molybdenum in many of its properties and is used especially in carbide materials and electrical components (such as lamp filaments) and in hardening alloys (such as steel) see Chemical Elements Table
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The company is developing a charger based on work at Kansai University, in Japan, that replaces a carbon electrode with one made from tungsten and vanadium oxides, allowing 10-minute charges without harming batteries.
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IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2011
To deal with the extraneous decay particles, a cone of tungsten would surround the beam pipe on either side of the collision point in each detector.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
In addition, know how your gun patterns at 10 yards, 20 yards, 30 yards, 40 yards, and 45-plus yards for those shooting tungsten loads.
—M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 27 Mar. 2024
For Adams, the exciting thing about tungsten was its scarceness in ordinary life--only one other tungsten-containing enzyme had ever been isolated from a living organism.
—Will Hively, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
The source focuses a stream of electrons from the back of the tube onto the tungsten target.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Dec. 2017
And the West is in critically short supply of lithium, tin, and tungsten, unlike China.
—Ivor Ichikowitz, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
Allee was using a 3.6-inch black Berkley Flat Worm with a small 1/32-ounce tungsten nail weight fastened on a 3/0 Eagle Claw Trokar Hook.
—Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2024
Now Adams and his co-workers on this molecular disassembly line began finding tungsten right and left.
—Will Hively, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2011
To deal with the extraneous decay particles, a cone of tungsten would surround the beam pipe on either side of the collision point in each detector.
—Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
In addition, know how your gun patterns at 10 yards, 20 yards, 30 yards, 40 yards, and 45-plus yards for those shooting tungsten loads.
—M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 27 Mar. 2024
For Adams, the exciting thing about tungsten was its scarceness in ordinary life--only one other tungsten-containing enzyme had ever been isolated from a living organism.
—Will Hively, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
The source focuses a stream of electrons from the back of the tube onto the tungsten target.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Dec. 2017
And the West is in critically short supply of lithium, tin, and tungsten, unlike China.
—Ivor Ichikowitz, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
Allee was using a 3.6-inch black Berkley Flat Worm with a small 1/32-ounce tungsten nail weight fastened on a 3/0 Eagle Claw Trokar Hook.
—Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 17 Jan. 2024
Now Adams and his co-workers on this molecular disassembly line began finding tungsten right and left.
—Will Hively, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
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from Swedish tungsten, literally "heavy stone," from tung "heavy" and sten "stone"
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tungsten
noun
tung·sten
ˈtəŋ-stən 
: a gray-white heavy high-melting ductile hard polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and molybdenum in many of its properties and is used especially for electrical purposes and in hardening alloys (as steel)
—symbol W
called also wolfram
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