Tungsten - Periodic Table of Videos

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The team at periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. Today we will learn about tungsten, an element most famous for its association with lightbulbs.


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It is the element with two names: tungsten, from the Swedish name meaning “heavy stone”, and wolfram, from the mineral wolframite.
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Element 74 can be called tungsten or wolfram.
Which of these names do you prefer to call W and why?
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