Talk:Tungsten

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Tungsten rods with evaporated crystals, partially oxidized with colorful tarnish, as well as a 1 cm³ tungsten cube for comparison. Tungsten is a hard, rare metal under standard conditions when uncombined and is found naturally on Earth only in chemical compounds. Its chemical symbol is W, which represents its alternative name, "wolfram".Photo: Alchemist-hp

Semi-protected edit request on 5 February 2024

Additional information for the history:

As early as the 16th century, the Freiberg mineralogist Georgius Agricola described the occurrence of a mineral in Saxon tin ores that made tin extraction considerably more difficult by slagging the tin content. The part of the name Wolf comes from this property, as the mineral “ate” the tin ore like a wolf. Whether this was wolframite is still controversial today, as Agricola spoke of the “lightness” of the mineral. He called the mineral lupi spuma, which translated from Latin means something like “wolf foam”. It was later called Wolfram, from the Middle High German rām “soot, cream, dirt”, as the black-grey mineral can be grounded up very easily and then resembles soot.[13] Its chemical symbol W comes from the name Wolfram.

Common in English, Italian and French, the word tungsten is derived from tung sten (Swedish for “heavy stone”).  In Sweden at the time, this did not mean tungsten itself (Swedish volfram), but rather calcium tungstate.  In 1781, the German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele recognized a previously unknown salt. !!!And then the rest of the history section can be kept!!! 2003:C9:8F0D:E00:E4D3:BD6:4945:BF29 (talk) 22:12, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. HouseBlaster (talk · he/him) 23:38, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Worldwide resources edit request

This reference below has Australia as having the second largest reserves of tungsten after China. It is published by the Australian Government agency Geoscience Australia and shows 394 kt and 11% of worldwide know reserves. I’d like to update the article to represent this.

https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/minerals/mineral-resources-and-advice/australian-resource-reviews/tungsten cweng50 (talk) 13:49, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

clarifying sentence structure/syntax

The sentence about how steel can be alloyed with tungsten should be just that. Not that tungsten is alloyed with steel. It is steel (iron and carbon) that is alloyed not the tungsten. I suggest the wording of that sentence be rewritten. [this would be neither a visual edit or source edit. 23.93.72.184 (talk) 20:31, 12 October 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 October 2024

Tungsten has the second-highest melting point of all known elements, not the first as this article states. Carbon has the highest melting point. 2601:47:4087:9E60:204A:A89F:ABB2:7B99 (talk) 03:25, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Charliehdb (talk) 14:15, 20 October 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 December 2024

In December 2024, Canada and the US announced the development of a large tungsten deposit in the Yukon territory. (See https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/mactung-mine-fireweed-metals-us-department-defence-1.7412022) Rexwoollard (talk) 16:58, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. also not sure how WP:DUE that bit of info would be here, especially if this is still "investing in pre-development activities" Cannolis (talk) 20:10, 17 December 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 December 2024

Minor spelling error in biological section, bullet point "WptB is a permease" should be changed to read "WtpB is a permease". 82.4.46.92 (talk) 02:29, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

 Done –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:50, 29 December 2024 (UTC)