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  2. Tungsten - Wikipedia

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    Tungsten (also called wolfram) [14] [15] is a chemical element; it has symbol W and atomic number 74. ... In 1781, Carl Wilhelm Scheele discovered that a new acid, ...

  3. Carl Wilhelm Scheele - Wikipedia

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    Carl Wilhelm Scheele (German:, Swedish: [ˈɧêːlɛ]; 9 December 1742 – 21 May 1786 [2]) was a German Swedish [3] pharmaceutical chemist.. Scheele discovered oxygen (although Joseph Priestley published his findings first), and identified molybdenum, tungsten, barium, nitrogen, and chlorine, among others.

  4. Axel Fredrik Cronstedt - Wikipedia

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    Cronstedt discovered the mineral now known as scheelite in 1751 at Bispberg Klack, later obtaining samples from the Kuhschacht mine in Freiberg, Germany. He gave it the name tungsten, meaning "heavy stone" in Swedish. Thirty years later, Carl Wilhelm Scheele determined that scheelite was in fact an ore, and that a new metal could be extracted ...

  5. Refractory metals - Wikipedia

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    Tungsten was discovered in 1781 by Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. Tungsten has the highest melting point of all metals, at 3,410 °C (6,170 °F). Filament of a 200 watt incandescent lightbulb highly magnified. Up to 22% Rhenium is alloyed with tungsten to improve its high temperature strength and corrosion resistance.

  6. Discovery of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    Perey discovered it as a decay product of 227 Ac. [177] Francium was the last element to be discovered in nature, rather than synthesized in the lab, although four of the "synthetic" elements that were discovered later (plutonium, neptunium, astatine, and promethium) were eventually found in trace amounts in nature as well. [178]

  7. Timeline of the discovery and classification of minerals

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    Note: René Haüy discovered that emeralds and beryls crystals are geometrically identical. He asked Vauquelin for a chemical analysis, and so Vauquelin found a new "earth" (beryllium oxide). Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742 –1786), discovery of oxygen with Priestley; identification of molybdenum, tungsten, barium, hydrogen, and chlorine.

  8. Naming of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    Suffixes were used more inconsistently before 1784, with tungsten (discovered 1783) the last element discovered whose English name lacks a standard suffix. [41] The naming rules promulgated by IUPAC in 2002 declared that all newly discovered elements should have names ending in -ium, for linguistic consistency. [40]

  9. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    The following dates are approximations. 700 BC: Pythagoras's theorem is discovered by Baudhayana in the Hindu Shulba Sutras in Upanishadic India. [18] However, Indian mathematics, especially North Indian mathematics, generally did not have a tradition of communicating proofs, and it is not fully certain that Baudhayana or Apastamba knew of a proof.