Crossword-Solution: TUNGSTEN 8 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Tungsten n. A rare element of the chromium group found in certain
minerals, as wolfram and scheelite, and isolated as a heavy steel-gray
metal which is very hard and infusible. It has both acid and basic
properties. When alloyed in small quantities with steel, it greatly
increases its hardness. Symbol W (Wolframium). Atomic weight, 183.6.
Specific gravity, 18.
Tungsten n. Scheelite, or calcium tungstate.

We have 38 clues for the answer “TUNGSTEN”

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W in full 1 answer
GREY metal 1 answer
Light bulb filament metal 1 answer
Light-bulb filament metal 1 answer
METALLIC ELEMENT TO MAKE LIGHT BULB FILAMENTS 1 answer
Metal for lamp filaments. 1 answer
Metal used for making filaments of lightbulbs 1 answer
STEEL-grey ductile metallic element 1 answer
Steel strengthener 1 answer
HARD grey metal 1 answer
W on the periodic table 1 answer
a heavy grey-white metallic element 1 answer
metallic element used to make light bulb filament 1 answer
metallic element used to make light bulb filaments 1 answer
metallic element used to make lightbulb filaments 1 answer
the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications 1 answer
wolframium 1 answer
Rare metallic element – W 1 answer
Filament material 1 answer
Filament element 1 answer
Element used in light bulb filaments 1 answer
Element in light bulbs. 1 answer
Element No. 74 1 answer
Conducting element 1 answer
Chemical Element W 1 answer
At. no. 74 1 answer
Atomic number 74 1 answer
Atomic no. 74 1 answer
CHROMIUM group element 2 answers
CALCIUM tungstate 2 answers
IRON manganese tungstate 2 answers
WOLFRAM 3 answers
CERAMICS-making material 3 answers
Wolframite 4 answers
BOTANIST FILAMENT 10 answers
metallic chemical element 20 answers
metallic element 34 answers
Element 95 answers
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The mining and processing of coal, copper, molybdenum, tin, tungsten, and gold account for a large part of industrial production.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
Namibia also produces large quantities of lead, zinc, tin, silver, and tungsten, and it has substantial resources of coal.
The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992
Mineral resources consist of manganese and copper, and, to a lesser extent, molybdenum, arsenic, tungsten, and mercury.
The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993
During the last four or five years lamps with filaments made from tantalum and tungsten have been produced and placed on the market with great success, and are now largely used.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin 2006
From another caveat, filed in 1889, we extract the following, which shows that he realized the value of tungsten also for this purpose.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin 2006

Quotes with TUNGSTEN (3)

And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. […] Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive “cry”). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals — my old and valued friends — Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.
Oliver Sacks Uncle Tungsten
He is, however,” Amos continued, “keeping a constant rail gun lock on the Israel’s reactor.” Holden ran his fingers through his hair. “So not too generous, then.”“Say pretty please, but carry a one-kilo slug of tungsten accelerated to a detectable percentage of c.
James S.A. Corey Cibola Burn
Onto his stomach. Then knees. Then hands. His elbows quivered, his wrists threatened to buckle under his own weight. Self-centered, stubborn, sentimental, childish, vain. I am humanity. Cynical, naive, kind, cruel, soft as down, hard as tungsten steel. I am humanity He crawled. I am humanity. He fell. I am humanity. He got up.
Rick Yancey The Infinite Sea
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 25 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).