Tungsten

• Chemical element: W (Atomic Number: 74)
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Table of contents

1 Etymology 2 Noun 3 Synonym 3.1 Translations 3.2 External links

Etymology

From the Swedish tung and sten, meaning heavy stone.

Noun

tungsten ()

1. a chemical element (symbol W) with an atomic number of 74. The symbol is derived from the German word Wolfram .

Synonym

• wolfram

Translations

Afrikaans: wolfraam Albanian: volfram Arabic: تنجستين Armenian: wolframu Basque: wolframioa Belarussian: Вальфрам Breton: tungsten Bulgarian: Волфрам Catalan: tungstè Chinese: 鎢/钨 Cornish: tungsten Croatian: volfram Czech: wolfram Danish: wolfram Dutch: wolfraam n Esperanto: volframo Faroese: wolfram Finnish: volframi French: tungstène m Frisian: wolfraam Friulian: tungsten, volframi Gallegan: volframio Georgian: ვოლფრამი German: Wolfram n Hebrew: טונגסטן Hungarian: volfrám Icelandic: þungsteinn Irish: tungstan Italian: tungsteno m, wolframio m Japanese: タングステン

Kashmiri: wòlfram Kazakh: Вольфрам Latin: Wolframium Latvian: volframs Lithuanian: volframas Luxembourgish: wolfram Macedonian: Волфрам Malay: wolfram Maltese: tangstinn Manx: tungsten Modern Greek: βολφράμιο n Mongolian: Больфрам Norwegian: wolfram Polish: wolfram Portuguese: tungstênio Romanian: tungsten n, wolfram Russian: Вольфрам Scottish Gaelic: tungstan Serbian: Волфрам Slovak: wolfram Slovenian: volfram Spanish: tungsteno m, wolframio m Swedish: volfram Tajik: vol'fram Thai: ทังสเตน Turkish: volfram, tungsten Ukrainian: Вольфрам Uzbek: Вольфрам Vietnamese: vonfam Welsh: twngsten

External links

For more information refer to: http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/elem/w.html (A lot of the translations were taken from that site with permission from the author)