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    tungsten


    1. There was an entry that said in addition to the dozens of irons and nickels melting out of a piece of Brazilian dinnerware, there would be one or two chromiums or a vanadium, sometimes even a titanium or even tungsten


    2. He yanked it out of her hand, at least he thought he did, but she had suddenly turned to tungsten


    3. He was afraid to try harder in case the tungsten would come back


    4. He was very conscious of how much better she felt than tungsten, and very conscious of how long he had let himself go without female companionship


    5. She lead him over to his couch, she stood by the back of it and drew him close, he followed like a lamb to slaughter, still sweating in fear of that tungsten


    6. To seem capable, he ought to at least know the name of the million denomination, tungsten he thought, but he didn't know how he would even recognize it, much less test for it


    7. They agreed on chromium, copper, nickel, tin and tungsten


    8. Filling the hillside with lead, copper, and tungsten was not a goal—being able to use the rifle with assurance met their requirements


    9. Not unless you have a room with tungsten walls a hundred meters thick


    10. Doctor Steven Barrie, one of the senior astronomers embarked as a passenger on the KOSTROMA, had then advanced the theory that the core was made, not of molten iron, but of molten heavy radioactive elements, possibly uranium mixed with heavy metals like iridium, thorium and tungsten

    11. The fifty-caliber round had a thirty-caliber tungsten penetrator built into it


    12. 'Of course it's a bluff Where's their tungsten? Where's their manganese?'


    13. The metal tungsten makes the transition from solid to liquid at 3,410°C (6,170°F)


    14. Additional note concerning the Tungsten and Tellurium 316


    15. It is well known to mineralogists, that tungsten is very rare, and that tellurium is found only in Transylvania


    16. Ephraim Lane, the proprietor of this mine, we obtained the tungsten in the state of yellow oxid, and the tellurium in the metallic state


    17. The tungsten is stated to be abundant in the mine; it is the ferruginous species, known to mineralogists by the name of wolfram


    18. We cannot yet say whether the tellurium is abundant, having obtained it from only two pieces; from these we extracted also tungsten, so that it may possibly constitute a new mineral species


    19. Additional note concerning the Tungsten and Tellurium


    20. We have not room to insert in the present number, a description and a chemical examination of the ores of tungsten and tellurium recently discovered in Connecticut; they will appear in our next

    21. In the mean time it may be stated, that the tungsten and tellurium are found blended in the same pieces, but whether in mere mixture, or in chemical combination, is not yet quite determined


    22. Many specimens of the tungsten exist without the tellurium, but every piece which has afforded tellurium has also afforded tungsten, and in greater abundance


    23. In other specimens a difference seems to be apparent, and a proper ore of tellurium appears to be blended with a proper ore of tungsten


    24. This latter ore is the wolfram, composed of oxid of tungsten, or as some choose to say, tungstic oxid combined with iron and manganese


    25. The crystals, however, are octahedral, a fact which we believe is not mentioned of this species by authors, although this form is found in the calcareous tungsten


    26. His mine, which has been sunk only ten feet, affords native bismuth, native silver, magnetical and common iron pyrites, and copper pyrites, (the two latter crystallized) galena, blende, tungsten, tellurium, &c


    27. The ammoniacal solution, which contains the oxyd of tungsten, is decomposed by acids, and by heat, and instantly deposits a white heavy powder, becoming yellowish by standing, and full yellow by heat


    28. The quantity obtained was too small to make it convenient to attempt its reduction to the metallic state; no doubt remained, however, that it was oxyd of tungsten, or as it is sometimes called, tungstic acid


    29. The calcareous tungsten occurs in octahedral crystals, but we have not before heard of this form in the ferruginous species, which generally affects the prismatic forms


    30. During the necessary chemical trials (which have, we trust, established the correctness of the above opinion,) we very unexpectedly discovered in some of the ores of tungsten, proofs of the existence of tellurium

    31. The above facts having induced the conclusion that the metal, thus unexpectedly discovered in the ores of tungsten, was tellurium,[73] we were led to search for external characters by which to judge what specimens contained it


    32. The ores from Transylvania, (the only telluric ores with which we are acquainted,) bearing no analogy in appearance or composition to those before us, we were led to inquire whether the tellurium in these latter ores was in combination with tungsten, or merely in mixture


    33. If we mistake not, we there found a proper ore of tellurium mixed with a proper ore of tungsten, but we have also by chemical means, found tellurium where similar external characters were not apparent


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    Synonyms for "tungsten"

    atomic number 74 tungsten w wolfram

    "tungsten" definitions

    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