Applications of Tungsten
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- Published on Monday, 11 March 2013 14:45
Tungsten is a kind of non-ferrous metal which is of strategic value . Tungsten used to be named “ heavy stone” in ancient times. In 1781 Swedish chemist Carl William discovered scheelite from which a new element was extracted – tungstic acid, in 1783 Spanish Drepoyer extracted tungstic acid from wolframite . The content of tungsten is about 0.001% in earth crust and there are about 20 sorts of discovered ores contain tungsten.
Nowadays about 50% exploited tungsten ores are used in the smelting of high-quality steel, 35% of them are used in producing harden steel and 5% of them are used in other area. Tungsten can be applied in many areas like gunsmithing, and the making of jet nozzles of rockets , cutting tools, drills, super-hard models and so on. Tungsten has wide applications, involves mining, metallurgy, building, machinery, traffic, electron industry, chemical industry, light industry , textile , military , aero space and technology. And the most common – tungsten wire in the incandescence bulb.
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