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| | The Elements: Tungsten |
 | | Tungsten (Swedish, tung sten, heavy stone); also known as WOLFRAM (from wolframite, said to be named from wolf rahm or spumi lupi, because the ore interfered with smelting of tin and was supposed to devour the tin), W; at. |
 | | The de Elhuyar brothers found an acid in wolframite in 1783 that was identical to the acid of tung sten (tungstic acid) of Scheele, and in that year they succeeded in obtaining the element by reduction of this acid with charcoal. |
 | | Tungsten occurs in wolframite, (Fe, Mn)WO4; scheelite, CaWO4; huebnerite, MnWO4; and ferberite, FeWO4. |
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