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Posted By: 3of9 <3of9@3of9.net> In Response To: Broken glass and twisted steel (Chelsea Bridge)
Date: 9 June 2001, 10:35
> The light burned and burned.
> If only I'd had to time to sit by it and read my heavy stone books . . .
> . . . Before the thread of life inside the light faded away.
> Truly,
> Chelsea
I think this is a "yes".
The word tungsten means "heavy stone" in Swedish. The chemical symbol for tungsten is W which stands for wolfram. The name came from medieval German smelters who found that tin ores containing tungsten had a much lower yield. It was said that the tungsten devoured the tin "like a wolf". Pure tungsten metal was first isolated by two Spanish chemists, the de Elhujar brothers in 1783. Tungsten is a greyish-white lustrous metal, which is a solid at room temperature. Tungsten has the highest melting point and lowest vapor pressure of all metals, and at temperatures over 1650°C has the highest tensile strength. It has excellent corrosion resistance and is attacked only slightly by most mineral acids.
It is also used in lightbulbs as the thin filiment that burns to emit the light.
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