tungsten
Meaning of tungsten
noun
the chemical element of atomic number 74, a hard steel-grey metal of the transition series. It has a very high melting point (3410°C) and is used to make electric light filaments.
late 18th century: from Swedish, from tung ‘heavy’ + sten ‘stone’.
Information about tungsten
- It is a name.
- The plural form of tungsten is: tungstens.
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Hyphenation of tungsten
tung-sten
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- tungsten is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
tungsten synonyms
Meaning wolfram:
Translation of tungsten
- Italian: tungsteno
- Spanish: tungsteno, wolframio, volframio
- French: tungstène, wolfram
- German: Wolfram
- Portuguese: volfrâmio
Words that rhyme with tungsten
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