What Is the Difference between Tungsten Bar and Tungsten Metal?

At present, “tungsten metal” is increasingly known for a vast number of consumers, but most of them still cannot have a clear definition of its concepts. China is one of the biggest countries to produce wolfram in the world, reserves of wolfram is 5.2 million tons, which account for 65% of the world's total reserves, pbaruction and export volume ranking first in the world. Under normal circumstances, people will consider metal tungsten as "wolfram metal", thinking that it is a kind of tungsten alloys which contains other alloying elements. Another saying about wolfram metal is that it is taken as a kind of metal which has a large proportion of metal, such as plumbum, however, prices of lead are actually much lower than tungsten.

What’s more, it is referred to a kind of tungsten material which contains gold. Some people think it doesn’t matter for its name. In fact, clear up the name of the above clarification is important, because there exist a large difference in their prices. The first case should be referred to the metal tungsten or tungsten bar. This variety takes "ton" or "kilogram" as the unit of measurement. Accordance to the current market situation, its price is generally at 245 RMB / kg. If someone sells you so-called "the price of wolfram metal bars with purity of 99.97% is several hundred thousand dollars per kilogram", that is a lie, in fact, it is pure tungsten bars. Wolfram metal is nonexistent in the world, that is, pure tungsten, people tamper with the concept to make money. Also, lead is taken "ton" as the unit, the current market price is 12,850-12,950 RMB per ton. Tungsten alloy is gold which belongs to a precious metal, even if it only contains a small amount of tungsten, it also belongs to gold. The charge unit of precious metals is generally taken "g" as a unit, according to the current market, its price is 200-300 RMB per gram.

Therefore, the fuzzy title will easily cause fraud, the large difference of their prices, it is necessary for the broad masses to pay a high attention to the name of products. In fact, both of them are not fundamentally different, the easiest way to judge them is that you can require a quality report of wolfram bars from the businesses who sale the wolfram bars or manufacturers, then, ask  business for a quality report of "tungsten gold bars", and then compare their chemical compositions.

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