Vera Monique P.

Cadag
Grade 8- Archimedes
 Tungsten has the highest melting point of all
metals and is alloyed with other metals to
strengthen them.
 Tungsten and its alloys are used in many high-
temperature applications, such as arc-welding
electrodes and heating elements in high-
temperature furnaces.
 Tungsten carbide is immensely hard and is
very important to the metal-working, mining
and petroleum industries.
 Symbol: W
 Atomic Number: 74
 Atomic Weight: 183.84
 Melting Point: 2996C
 Boiling Point: 5660C
 Group Name: Early Transition Metals
 Appearance: A shiny, silvery-white metal.
 Tungsten was used extensively for the
filaments of old-style incandescent light bulbs,
but these have been phased out in many
countries. This is because they are not very
energy efficient; they produce much more heat
than light.
 More than 350 years ago, porcelain makers in China
incorporated a unique peach colour into their designs
by means of a tungsten pigment that was not known in
the West. Indeed it was not for another century that
chemists in Europe became aware of it. In 1779, Peter
Woulfe examined a mineral from Sweden and
concluded it contained a new metal, but he did not
separate it. Then in 1781, Wilhelm Scheele investigated
it and succeeded in isolating an acidic white oxide and
which he rightly deduced was the oxide of a new metal.
 The credit for discovering tungsten goes to
thebrothers, Juan and Fausto Elhuyar, who were
interested in mineralogy and were based at the
Seminary at Vergara, in Spain, 1783 they produced the
same acidic metal oxide and even reduced it to tungsten
metal by heating with carbon.
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