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• n  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

• Professor Colin Garfield Fink of Columbia, who invented the drawn tungsten filament for electric light bulbs and developed the first commercial process of plating automobile .
• As an alternative, "get-the-lead-out" advocates want hunters to start using copper, bismuth, tungsten, steel, tin, and other alloys in their bullets.
• Columbia's Professor Colin Garfield Fink, who gave Industry a chromium-plated shield against rust, last week took out a patent for a tungsten-plated shield.

• wolfram
• W
• atomic number 74

News & Articles

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• North American Tungsten Corporation Announces Completion of Shares for Debt Transaction
  North American Tungsten Corporation Ltd. -
  June 12, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• US Tungsten Corporation Announces Completion of Geological Report
  US Tungsten Corporation , a company focused on becoming a near-term North American tungsten producer with the re-development of the historically productive Calvert Mine in SW Montana, is pleased to announce ...
  June 7, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• Forever Tungsten Ring Manufactures a Line of Wood Inlay Rings
  http://www.Forevertungstenring.com , tungsten carbide ring retailer, is featuring a unique line of true redwood inlay rings in many sizes and widths to accommodate both men and women shoppers. (PRWeb June 07, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10810707.htm
  June 7, 2013 - PRWeb

Quotes

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• Robert Morgenthau in Reuters
  There was an order for 30,000 metric tonnes of tungsten that would take care of every refrigerator in the Middle East and then some,Morgenthau told the paper on Sunday.
• Mike Babcock in Canada.com
  We didn't have a (hockey) rink up in Tungsten, but we had an indoor, two-sheet curling strip,said Mike Sr. "In March, we'd flood it smooth and give it to the kids. The kids at that little townsite skated there for 2 1/2 months every year."
• Andrew Murphy in Courier Mail
  Scorpion is a serious horse and he can be ridden anywhere (in a race). He can make the running, he can be ridden off the pace,Murphy said. "Mahler prefers pace, but you've got Amanda Perrett's horse (Tungsten Strike) and he makes the...