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2000UltraDeluxe
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Europe's largest deposit of rare earth metals disc...
Also, Tungsten.
hrnnnnnn
on Jan 12, 2023
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Annoyingly, even though tungsten literally means "heavy stone" in Swedish, the name of the element in Swedish is "volfram".
excitom
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Thus the chemical symbol W (Wolfram) for tungsten.
iSnow
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But "Wolfram" comes from German, as it was described in the 16th century already. The isolation of pure tungsten then was done by Spanish scientists.
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