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The essentials

Description 

Here is a brief description of tungsten.

• Standard state: solid at 298 K
• Colour: greyish white, lustrous
• Classification: Metallic
• Availability:

  tungsten is available in many forms including foil, powder, rod, nanosized activated powder, sheet, mesh, and wire.

Small and large samples of tungsten wire like this, as well as foil, sheet, wire straight cut lengths, insulated wire, and mesh (and tungsten alloys in wire form), can be purchased from Advent Research Materials via their web catalogue.

Pure tungsten is a steel-gray to tin-white metal. Tungsten has the highest melting point and lowest vapour pressure of all metals, and at temperatures over 1650°C has the highest tensile strength. The metal oxidises in air and must be protected at elevated temperatures. It has excellent corrosion resistance and is attacked only slightly by most mineral acids.

Isolation

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