Tungsten means “heavy stone” in Swedish.

German smelters discovered that tin ores with tungsten had a lower yield– the tungsten devoured the tin, “like a wolf.”

The chemical symbol is W (wolfram in German).

Tungsten is a light gray lustrous metal, solid at room temperature.

Tungsten has excellent conductive properties and the second highest melting point of all elements which makes tungsten suitable for aerospace and high temperature uses which include electrical, heating, and welding applications, notably in the gas tungsten arc welding process (also called TIG welding) or Plasma Arc Welding.

Tungsten has the lowest vapor pressure of all metals.

At temperatures over 1650 degrees C tungsten has the highest tensile strength of all metals.