Definitions
Heavy metal used in tough alloys and electrical parts
Word origin
Borrowed from Swedish tungsten (“scheelite”), from tung (“heavy”) + sten (“stone”).
Used in a sentence
“He then explained that tungsten has the highest melting point, and the highest boiling point, of all known elements.”
“So far they have built and used a prototype robot to make millionth-of-a-meter scratches in aluminum with a fine tungsten needle.”
“Which makes the concept known as Rods From God the ultimate form of kinetic weaponry. This theoretical weapon would drop telephone pole sized rods of dense tungsten from a satellite in orbit.”
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01“Lightbulb filament metal”8 letters
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