Tungsten

Mineral resources include silver, gold, uranium, antimony, tungsten, and coal.

Tungsten is a chemical element with the symbol W.

Where do you find tungsten ore?

The tungsten cube Tom leaves on his nightstand greets him every morning with its sheer density.

You cannot imagine the experience of holding a tungsten cube. You can only feel its massive presence by holding it yourself.

Tungsten is what makes cell phones vibrate, and tin is used in solder.

The question of whether it is at all possible to hold caramel ice cream was answered in the affirmative in 2019 by an international team of scientists who made a glove out of an ultra-tough tungsten molybdenum alloy and were able to successfully hold it for a split second before they, too, succumbed to temptation and ate it all up.

So far they have built and used a prototype robot to make millionth-of-a-meter scratches in aluminum with a fine tungsten needle.

Which makes the concept known as Rods From God the ultimate form of kinetic weaponry. This theoretical weapon would drop telephone pole sized rods of dense tungsten from a satellite in orbit.

We have several business houses where tungstens are used as window lights only, and find that in nearly every one the wiring was arranged to get more light, leaving the consumption about the same.