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Also, Tungsten.



Annoyingly, even though tungsten literally means "heavy stone" in Swedish, the name of the element in Swedish is "volfram".


Thus the chemical symbol W (Wolfram) for tungsten.


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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