Tungsten - Periodic Table of Videos

Summary Tungsten is one of the hardest, heaviest and highest melting metals. As a fine wire it is used as the filament in incandescent light bulbs. Iodine is added to produce quartz halogen lamps that were used for a time for automobile headlights. Tungesten carbide is especially hard and used for the ball in ball point pens. Peter has a couple samples including a single crystal of tungsten.

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jul 14, 2008

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel

Language : English

Summary Tungsten is one of the hardest, heaviest and highest melting metals. As a fine wire it is used as the filament in incandescent light bulbs. Iodine is added to produce quartz halogen lamps that were used for a time for automobile headlights. Tungesten carbide is especially hard and used for the ball in ball point pens. Peter has a couple samples including a single crystal of tungsten.

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Jul 14, 2008

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel

Language : English

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