How to Use tungsten in a Sentence

tungsten

noun

• So why not just make the whole disc out of tungsten carbide?
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2019
• The source focuses a stream of electrons from the back of the tube onto the tungsten target.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Dec. 2017
• Later, the area was an important source of tungsten, but the last shaft closed in 1993.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 25 Dec. 2017
• Most were caught within a foot or two of the bottom on small tungsten jigs tipped with wax worms.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2018
• That great sink rate is due to the fly’s big tungsten bead head and the glassy coat of epoxy usually applied to it.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 30 Mar. 2020
• The springs that lofted the truck so high had the compressibility of tungsten.
  — Car and Driver, 30 Nov. 2016
• Made with a space-age tungsten micro-filament, the iBrew is simple to use.
  — Wired Blogs, WIRED, 27 Sep. 2004
• Winchester Long Beard delivered the extra yards, and at the price of lead, not tungsten.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2020
• The more tungsten in a dart barrel, the smaller it can be made without sacrificing weight.
  — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2024
• The tungsten raised some eyebrows because at the time of Brahe's work, the element hadn't ever been described.
  — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 25 July 2024
• The screen looks good, but the room, like most of the gallery space, is still a mess, scattered with empty vitrines and submarine parts and carts of tungsten track lighting that was swapped out for UV.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2018
• Inside its cylinder is a spring-loaded tungsten block that will hammer thousands of times to slowly drive the mole to a depth of 3 meters, or about 10 feet.
  — Emily Lakdawalla, Popular Mechanics, 30 Apr. 2018
• The tungsten then filled the pores in the resulting material, allowing it to retain the same shape and size despite the chemical changes.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2018
• And the West is in critically short supply of lithium, tin, and tungsten, unlike China.
  — Ivor Ichikowitz, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
• Blazé Milano does one with a tungsten hue, ideal for both meetings and extra glam happy hour cocktails.
  — Vogue, 15 May 2019
• Such alternative lead weights (made of steel, tin, tungsten, and alloys) are more expensive than lead.
  — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 29 Aug. 2019
• Processors will strip out their coltan, gold, tin, and tungsten so they can be used in new equipment, thus reducing demand for new mining.
  — National Geographic, 21 Apr. 2020
• For bottom-sulking panfish, and for deeply suspended fish in creek channels, a Prince Nymph with a tungsten beadhead dives deeper and faster.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 12 Mar. 2020
• Dress a small tungsten jig in the 3-to-5 mm range with one or two waxworms, or twice that many spikes, to create a compact, buggy bluegill bait with powerful visual, scent, and taste appeal.
  — Outdoor Life, 27 Jan. 2020
• The paper also reported the work could be done in a matter of minutes using diamond grit and tungsten carbide blades.
  — William Cummings, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2019
• Now, there’s an in-between option: Porsche Surface Coated Brakes, which use iron rotors coated in a 0.1-mm layer of tungsten carbide.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 16 Apr. 2019
• To deal with the extraneous decay particles, a cone of tungsten would surround the beam pipe on either side of the collision point in each detector.
  — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
• An incandescent bulb is built around a tungsten wire, called a filament, and produces light when the filament is heated.
  — Dale Kasler, sacbee, 22 Dec. 2017
• This decay happens on a regular schedule: half the hafnium turns into tungsten in nine million years.
  — Linda T. Elkins-Tanton, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2016
• For the next version, Horton used a wider tungsten electrode to repeatedly puncture two opposing patches on the trap's sides.
  — C.j. Chivers, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2016
• The company allegedly certified that its tungsten was sourced in the U.S. when it was actually sourced in China.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2021
• Now Adams and his co-workers on this molecular disassembly line began finding tungsten right and left.
  — Will Hively, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• Essentially the heat exhaust of the reactor, the divertor absorbs excess heat from the plasma into pieces of tungsten.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
• The new work extends that by looking at specific elements: tungsten and molybdenum.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 June 2017
• Porsche's solution, developed with Bosch, sprays a 0.004-inch tungsten-carbide coating onto iron discs, making them five times harder.
  — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 15 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024