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A labeled diagram of the periodic table entry for tungsten, showing its symbol W, atomic number 74, atomic weight 183.84, electron configuration, and crystal structure. The diagram notes tungsten is a solid transition metal with a body-centered cubic structure and weakly acidic oxides at room temperature. halogen lamp Explore an interactive periodic table of the elements tungsten carbide
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A labeled diagram of the periodic table entry for tungsten, showing its symbol W, atomic number 74, atomic weight 183.84, electron configuration, and crystal structure. The diagram notes tungsten is a solid transition metal with a body-centered cubic structure and weakly acidic oxides at room temperature.
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tungsten

chemical element
Also known as: W, wolfram
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tungsten (W), chemical element, an exceptionally strong refractory metal of Group 6 (VIb) of the periodic table, used in steels to increase hardness and strength and in lamp filaments. Tungsten metal was first isolated (1783) by the Spanish chemists and mineralogists Juan José and Fausto Elhuyar by charcoal reduction of the oxide (WO3) derived from the mineral wolframite. Earlier (1781) the Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele had discovered tungstic acid in a mineral now known...

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