Trekking poles used by hikers, for instance, use carbide tips in order to gain traction on hard or rocky surfaces. Several common consumer goods contain tungsten carbide, including razor blades and the rotating tips of ballpoint pens. It has also become increasingly common for it to be used in men's wedding bands.

Moissan had set out to create diamonds, but his experiments led to the development of a porous, brittle version of modern tungsten-carbide. The Germans Karl Schroeter and Heinrich Baumhauef discovered that the material could be made stronger and more appropriate for industrial uses, such as cutting, with the addition of cobalt.


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Tungsten carbide (or more specifically tungsten carbide and titanium carbide) is a very common material on any sort of cutting tool: For example, saw blades, lathe bits, drill bits, router bits and dental drilling tips are generally made of carbide. Tungsten carbide is so popular in these sorts of tools because it stays sharper longer than most other materials. Additionally, some ball-point pens use carbide balls because it helps the pen last longer.


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With something like a carbide-tipped saw blade, the main body of the blade is made of steel. The small tips of carbide are brazed on to the body. A good carbide tip might hold an edge ten to twenty times longer than a tool steel tip.

Carbide tips do get dull eventually. You sharpen them using the same techniques you would use with tool steel, but because they are so hard, you use a different abrasive. Something coated in diamond or a carbide abrasive wheel is common.


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In order to reduce the adoption of environmental hazardous materials in the military field, tungsten alloy related products are used as a nontoxic substitute for lead and depleted uranium in bullet and shot.

High-density metals such as tungsten alloy are now widely employed; the goal is to create functional, high density, non-toxic arms projectiles with controlled impact behavior.


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