tungsten

English

Chemical element
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Alternative forms

• tungstenum

Etymology

From Swedish and Danish tung heavy, + sten stone (although neither language uses "tungsten" as the name of the element)

Noun

tungsten (uncountable)

Wikipedia

1. a metallic chemical element (symbol W) with an atomic number of 74. The symbol is derived from the Latin word wolframium.

Synonyms

• wolfram

Derived terms

Derived terms

eka-tungsten ferrotungsten tungstenane tungsten carbide tungsten disulfide, tungsten disulphide tungsten fluoride tungsten-halogen lamp tungsten hexafluoride tungstenic tungsten iodide tungsteniferous

tungstenite tungstenitic tungsten lamp tungsten oxide tungsten-steel tungsten sulfide, tungsten sulphide tungsten trioxide tungstic tungstite tungsto- tungstous

Related terms

• tungstate

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: wolfraam Albanian: volfram (sq) Arabic: تنجستين (tongastēn) m. Armenian: վոլֆրամ (hy) (volfram) Basque: wolframioa Belarusian: вальфрам (val’frám) m. Breton: tungsten Bulgarian: волфрам (volfrám) m. Catalan: tungstè Chinese: 鎢, 钨 (wū) Cornish: tungsten Croatian: volfram (hr) Czech: wolfram (cs) m. Danish: wolfram (da) Dutch: wolfraam (nl) n. Esperanto: volframo (eo) Estonian: volfram (et) Faroese: wolfram (fo) Finnish: volframi (fi) French: tungstène (fr) m., wolfram (fr) m. Friulian: tungsten, volframi Galician: volframio (gl) m. Georgian: ვოლფრამი (volp‘rami) German: Wolfram (de) n. Greek: βολφράμιο (el) (volfrámio) n. Hebrew: טונגסטן (tungstén), וולפרם (volfrám) Hungarian: volfrám (hu) Icelandic: þungsteinn (is) Ido: wolframo (io) Irish: tungstan Italian: tungsteno (it) m., wolframio (it) m. Japanese: タングステン (ja) (tangusuten) Kashubian: wòlfram Kazakh: вольфрам (vol’fram)

Korean: 텅스텐 (teongseuten), 볼프람 (bolpeuram), 중석 (重石, jungseok) Latin: wolframium (la) Latvian: volframs Lithuanian: volframas (lt) Luxembourgish: Wolfram Macedonian: волфрам (volfrám) m. Malay: wolfram (ms) Maltese: tangstinn Manx: tungsten Mongolian: больфрам (bol’fram) Norwegian: wolfram (no) Polish: wolfram (pl) Portuguese: tungstênio (pt) m., tungsténio (pt) m., volfrâmio (pt) m. Romanian: tungsten (ro) n., wolfram (ro) Russian: вольфрам (ru) (vol’frám) m. Scottish Gaelic: tungstan Serbian: волфрам (volfram) m. Slovak: wolfram (sk) Slovene: volfram (sl) Spanish: tungsteno (es) m., wolframio (es) m. Swedish: volfram (sv) Tajik: vol'fram Tamil: தங்ஸ்தென் (taństen) Thai: ทังสเตน (thangsàten), วุลแฟรม (wulfraem) Turkish: volfram (tr), tungsten (tr) Ukrainian: вольфрам (vol’frám) m. Uzbek: вольфрам (vol’fram) Vietnamese: vonfam Volapük: volframin (vo) Welsh: twngsten West Frisian: wolfraam Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Telugu: please add this translation if you can

External links

For more information refer to: http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/element.php?sym=W (A lot of the translations were taken from that site with permission from the author)

See also

• ferberite
• huebnerite
• scheelite
• wolframite