Tungsten

-TUNGSTEN- By: Madi Seabaugh

1﻿) ﻿ My elements name is Tungsten and how it got its name is from the Swedish name ‘tung sten’ which means ‘heavy stone’. The W symbol comes from its earlier name ‘wolfram’. The name Wolfram comes from the mineral wolframite, in which it was discovered. Wolframite means "the devourer of tin" since the mineral interferes with the smelting of tin. Tungsten was discovered by Juan José and Fausto Elhuyar, Spanish chemists and brothers, in 1783 in samples of the mineral wolframite.

2) The W symbol comes from its earlier name ‘wolfram’. The atomic # is 74, and the atomic mass is 183.84 ﻿ 3) Protron = 74 Nuetron = 110 Electron = 74 4)  Its metal, so it’s a solid at room temp. It is found inside other minerals like wolframite, huebnertie, ferberite, and scheelite. Which you find in the ground. 5) Melting point: 3695 K (3422°C or 6192°F) Boiling point: 5828 K (5555°C or 10031°F) Density: 19.3 grams per cubic centimeter <span style="color: #11285a; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">Abundent crust thing: 184

<span style="color: #2a75cf; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">﻿ <span style="color: #142148; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"><span style="color: #236bd1; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">﻿6) Tungsten is used to make filaments for incandescent light bulbs, fluorescent light bulbs and television tubes. Tungsten expands at nearly the same rate as borosilicate glass and is used to make metal to glass seals. Tungsten is also used as a target for X-ray production, as heating elements in electric furnaces and for parts of spacecraft and missiles which must withstand high temperatures.

<span style="color: #2b5ef7; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">7) <span style="color: #142148; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;"><span style="color: #254cc1; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">﻿ Some interesting facts are that they make jewelry out of tungsten.

<span style="color: #1869e2; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">﻿8) <span style="color: #142148; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">You have to mine it from the ground cus it’s a mineral and u find it inside other minerals such as wolframite, huebnertie, ferberite, and scheelite, and u find it in California, Colorado, Portugal, South Korea, and Russia. And China is known to have 75% of the tungsten resourses. <span style="color: #86a4cb; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">