Tungsten used in a sentence

Tungsten in a sentence as a noun

I think most of the teams use tungsten, it's more dense than lead.

For the 10-cm thick tungsten wall, following [1], it looks like the shielding factor is ~25,000.

Not much hotter than the tungsten filament in an incandescent light bulb.

It's only a problem because the LED chips aren't made of carbon or tungsten like filaments are.

However, the speed of sound in tungsten is significantly different than in gold.

This is kind of like saying that tungsten lamps aren't lightbulbs because they don't work when not supplied with electricity.

The post states that tungsten "...has a low corrosion rate at elevated temperatures.

By that logic, tungsten carbide wedding rings would be indestructible, and in reality, one bad drop from waist height can destroy them [0].

Where is that quote from?It seems to me that the only way to hit the 90% target would be to include 270kg of dead-weight tungsten, and fit all the science into a 30kg budget.

> Because of the high density of tungsten, it is unlikely that payload concepts may be proposed that identically match the characteristics of the MSL BMDs.

Sure, one of these theoretically replaces 20 incandescents and uses less electricity, but an incandescent light bulb is just a tiny tungsten wire + steel leads + glass + aluminium base + a drop of epoxy, all made in one factory with extraordinary efficiency that has been polished through 100 years of manufacturing.