wolfram
woolf ram
- 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
- Franco recently agreed to cut his country's shipment of wolfram (for steel alloys) to Germany.
- Probable first German purchase: 800 tons of precious wolfram now stored on the French border and needed for armor-piercing steel.
- Portugal has wolfram, and Felsen speaks Portuguese, a memento from his past affair with a Brazilian woman.