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0 pointshrnnnnnn3y ago0 comments

Annoyingly, even though tungsten literally means "heavy stone" in Swedish, the name of the element in Swedish is "volfram".

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excitom3y ago· 1 in thread

Thus the chemical symbol W (Wolfram) for tungsten.

iSnow3y ago

But "Wolfram" comes from German, as it was described in the 16th century already. The isolation of pure tungsten then was done by Spanish scientists.

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