tungsten

English

Chemical element
W
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Tungsten cube and rods.

Alternative forms

• tungstenum

Etymology

From Swedish tungsten (“scheelite”), from tung (“heavy”) + sten (“stone”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: tŭng'stən, IPA^(key): /ˈtʌŋstən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋstən

Noun

tungsten (countable and uncountable, plural tungstens)

2. A rare metallic chemical element (symbol W, from Latin wolframium) with an atomic number of 74.
   • 1990 April 7, Ivan Amato, “Getting a feel for atoms: 'magic wrist' takes scientists into a new sensory realm”, in Science News‎^[1]:

     So far they have built and used a prototype robot to make millionth-of-a-meter scratches in aluminum with a fine tungsten needle.

3. A light bulb containing tungsten.
   • 1909, E. A. Baily, “The Tungsten Lamp Situation in Various Cities”, in Electrical Age, volume XL, number 10, page 262:

     We have several business houses where tungstens are used as window lights only, and find that in nearly every one the wiring was arranged to get more light, leaving the consumption about the same.

   • 1979 August, Graham Burtenshaw, Michael S. Welch, “O.V.S. Bulleid's SR loco-hauled coaches - 1”, in Railway World, page 398:

     Lighting was unimaginative for the standard stock with naked tungsten filament bulbs and metal reflectors. However, all compartments had individual reading lights above the seats with attractive glass shades.

4. (mineralogy, obsolete) scheelite, calcium tungstate
   • 1783, “[Review of] Outlines of Mineralogy”, in Monthly Review, volume LXX, number VII, page 47:

     We apprehend that this is not the acid of a calx ponderoſa, but rather a diſtinct acid conjoined to common calcareous earth, ſince, in fact, in another place, § 97, the tungſten is mentioned as a calx ſaturated with a peculiar acid, perhaps of a metallic nature, for which the author himſelf refers us to the above § 33, and ſeems to think it the ſame as the acid there mentioned.

Synonyms

• wolfram

Derived terms

• eka-tungsten
• ferrotungsten
• tungstenane
• tungsten carbide
• tungsten disulfide, tungsten disulphide
• tungsten fluoride
• tungsten-halogen lamp
• tungsten hexafluoride
• tungstenian
• tungstenic
• tungsteniferous
• tungsten iodide
• tungstenite
• tungstenitic
• tungsten lamp
• tungsten oxide
• tungsten-steel
• tungsten sulfide, tungsten sulphide
• tungsten trioxide
• tungstic
• tungstite
• tungsto-
• tungstous

 

Related terms

• tungstate

Descendants

• → Japanese: タングステン (tangusuten)
• → Malay: tungsten
• → Spanish: tungsteno

Translations

chemical element

• Afrikaans: wolfram (af)
• Albanian: volfram (sq)
• Arabic: تُنْجَسْتِين m (tongastēn), تُنْجَسْتِين m (tunjastīn)
• Armenian: վոլֆրամ (hy) (volfram)
• Asturian: volframiu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: volfram (az)
• Basque: wolfram (eu)
• Belarusian: вальфра́м m (valʹfrám)
• Breton: tungsten (br) m
• Bulgarian: во́лфрам (bg) m (vólfram)
• Catalan: tungstè (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鎢／钨 (zh) (wū)

• Cornish: tungsten
• Czech: wolfram (cs) m
• Danish: wolfram (da)
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: wolfraam (nl) n
• Esperanto: volframo (eo)
• Estonian: volfram (et)
• Faroese: wolfram
• Finnish: volframi (fi)
• French: tungstène (fr) m, wolfram (fr) m
• Friulian: tungsten, volframi
• Galician: volframio (gl) m
• Georgian: ვოლფრამი (volprami)
• German: Wolfram (de) n
• Greek: βολφράμιο (el) n (volfrámio)
• Hebrew: טונגסט m (tungstén), וולפרם m (volfrám)
• Hindi: टंगस्टन (ṭaṅgasṭan), चण्डातु (caṇḍātu)
• Hungarian: volfrám (hu)
• Icelandic: þungsteinn (is)
• Ido: wolframo (io)
• Indonesian: wolfram (id)
• Irish: tungstan
• Italian: tungsteno (it) m, wolframio (it) m
• Japanese: タングステン (ja) (tangusuten)
• Kashubian: wòlfram
• Kazakh: вольфрам (kk) (volfram)
• Khmer: តង់ស្តែន (tɑngstaen)
• Korean: 텅스텐 (ko) (teongseuten), 볼프람 (bolpeuram), 중석(重石) (ko) (jungseok)
• Latin: wolframium (la)
• Latvian: volframs m
• Lithuanian: volframas (lt) m
• Luxembourgish: Wolfram
• Macedonian: волфра́м m (volfrám)
• Malay: siamang (ms), tungsten, wolfram
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maltese: tangstinn
• Manx: tungsten
• Maori: tangitene
• Mongolian: больфрам (bolʹfram)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: wolfram n

  Nynorsk: wolfram (nn) n

• Occitan: tungstèn m
• Persian: تنگستن (fa) (tangesten), ولفرام (volfrâm)
• Polish: wolfram (pl)
• Portuguese: tungstênio (pt) m, tungsténio (pt) m, volfrâmio (pt) m
• Romanian: tungsten (ro) n, wolfram (ro)
• Russian: вольфра́м (ru) m (volʹfrám)
• Santali: ᱴᱟᱸᱜᱟᱥᱴᱟᱱ (ṭãgasṭan)
• Scottish Gaelic: tungstan
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: волфрам m

  Roman: volfram (sh) m

• Slovak: wolfram
• Slovene: volfram (sl)
• Spanish: wolframio (es) m, tungsteno (es) m
• Swedish: volfram (sv)
• Tajik: вольфрам (volfram)
• Tamil: தங்ஸ்தென் (taṅsteṉ)
• Telugu: తుంగస్థము (tuṅgasthamu)
• Thai: ทังสเตน (th) (tang-sà-dteen), วุลแฟรม (wulfraem)
• Turkish: volfram (tr), tungsten (tr)
• Ukrainian: вольфра́м m (volʹfrám)
• Urdu: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: vol’fram

  Cyrillic: вольфрам (uz)

• Vietnamese: vonfam
• Volapük: volframin (vo)
• Welsh: twngsten (cy)
• West Frisian: wolfraam

See also

• ferberite
• huebnerite
• scheelite
• wolframite

References

• “tungsten”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Breton

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish tungsten.

Noun

tungsten m

1. tungsten

Malay

Chemical element
W
Previous: tantalum (Ta)
Next: renium (Re)

Alternative forms

• توڠستن

Etymology

From English tungsten, from Swedish tungsten (“scheelite”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tuŋstən]
• Rhymes: -stən, -ən

Noun

tungsten (Jawi spelling توڠستن)

1. tungsten

Synonyms

• siamang / سيامڠ
• wolfram / وولفرم

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tungstène.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtunɡ.sten/

Noun

tungsten n (uncountable)

1. tungsten

   Synonym: wolfram

Declension

declension of tungsten (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) tungsten	tungstenul
genitive/dative	(unui) tungsten	tungstenului
vocative	tungstenule

Further reading

• tungsten in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Swedish

Etymology

tung (“heavy”) +‎ sten (“rock”)

Noun

tungsten c

1. (somewhat dated) scheelite

   Synonym: scheelit

2. (dated) tungsten, wolfram

   Synonym: volfram

References

• tungsten in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tungsten in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tungsten in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)