How to Use tungsten in a Sentence

tungsten

noun
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  • So why not just make the whole disc out of tungsten carbide?
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2019
  • The source focuses a stream of electrons from the back of the tube onto the tungsten target.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Dec. 2017
  • Later, the area was an important source of tungsten, but the last shaft closed in 1993.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 25 Dec. 2017
  • Most were caught within a foot or two of the bottom on small tungsten jigs tipped with wax worms.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2018
  • That great sink rate is due to the fly’s big tungsten bead head and the glassy coat of epoxy usually applied to it.
    — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The springs that lofted the truck so high had the compressibility of tungsten.
    — Car and Driver, 30 Nov. 2016
  • Made with a space-age tungsten micro-filament, the iBrew is simple to use.
    — Wired Blogs, WIRED, 27 Sep. 2004
  • Winchester Long Beard delivered the extra yards, and at the price of lead, not tungsten.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2020
  • The screen looks good, but the room, like most of the gallery space, is still a mess, scattered with empty vitrines and submarine parts and carts of tungsten track lighting that was swapped out for UV.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
  • Inside its cylinder is a spring-loaded tungsten block that will hammer thousands of times to slowly drive the mole to a depth of 3 meters, or about 10 feet.
    — Emily Lakdawalla, Popular Mechanics, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The tungsten then filled the pores in the resulting material, allowing it to retain the same shape and size despite the chemical changes.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2018
  • And the West is in critically short supply of lithium, tin, and tungsten, unlike China.
    — Ivor Ichikowitz, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Blazé Milano does one with a tungsten hue, ideal for both meetings and extra glam happy hour cocktails.
    — Vogue, 15 May 2019
  • Such alternative lead weights (made of steel, tin, tungsten, and alloys) are more expensive than lead.
    — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Processors will strip out their coltan, gold, tin, and tungsten so they can be used in new equipment, thus reducing demand for new mining.
    — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2020
  • For bottom-sulking panfish, and for deeply suspended fish in creek channels, a Prince Nymph with a tungsten beadhead dives deeper and faster.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Dress a small tungsten jig in the 3-to-5 mm range with one or two waxworms, or twice that many spikes, to create a compact, buggy bluegill bait with powerful visual, scent, and taste appeal.
    — Outdoor Life, 27 Jan. 2020
  • The paper also reported the work could be done in a matter of minutes using diamond grit and tungsten carbide blades.
    — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Now, there’s an in-between option: Porsche Surface Coated Brakes, which use iron rotors coated in a 0.1-mm layer of tungsten carbide.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2019
  • To deal with the extraneous decay particles, a cone of tungsten would surround the beam pipe on either side of the collision point in each detector.
    — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
  • An incandescent bulb is built around a tungsten wire, called a filament, and produces light when the filament is heated.
    — Dale Kasler, sacbee, 22 Dec. 2017
  • This decay happens on a regular schedule: half the hafnium turns into tungsten in nine million years.
    — Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2016
  • For the next version, Horton used a wider tungsten electrode to repeatedly puncture two opposing patches on the trap's sides.
    — C.j. Chivers, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2016
  • The company allegedly certified that its tungsten was sourced in the U.S. when it was actually sourced in China.
    — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Now Adams and his co-workers on this molecular disassembly line began finding tungsten right and left.
    — Will Hively, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Essentially the heat exhaust of the reactor, the divertor absorbs excess heat from the plasma into pieces of tungsten.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
  • The new work extends that by looking at specific elements: tungsten and molybdenum.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 June 2017
  • Porsche's solution, developed with Bosch, sprays a 0.004-inch tungsten-carbide coating onto iron discs, making them five times harder.
    — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 15 Apr. 2020
  • As border guards looked the other way, workers used carts to pull the cargo of metal ore — tungsten, lead, zinc, copper and gold concentrates, all banned from export under United Nations sanctions — across the frozen river.
    — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Most of the longest-lasting bulbs have unconventional filaments that avoid the telltale tink! of a breaking tungsten filament.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 27 Dec. 2019

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