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Wolfram   /wˈʊlfrˌæm/   Listen
Wolfram

noun
1.
A heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite.  Synonyms: atomic number 74, tungsten, W.



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"Wolfram" Quotes from Famous Books



... on their fat bodies moved as though it were too big for them. The marmots are splendid prospectors, always digging deep ditches, throwing out on the surface all the stones. In many places I saw mounds the marmots had made from copper ore and farther north some from minerals containing wolfram and vanadium. Whenever the marmot is at the entrance of his hole, he sits up straight on his hind legs and looks like a bit of wood, a small stump or a stone. As soon as he spies a rider in the distance, he watches him with great curiosity and begins whistling ...
— Beasts, Men and Gods • Ferdinand Ossendowski
... Guardian of the Holy Graal, by Wolfram von Eschenbach. Titurel founded the temple of Graalburg as a shrine for the ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.


Words linked to "Wolfram" :   wolfram steel, tungsten, scheelite, metal, atomic number 74, iron manganese tungsten, W, metallic element, wolframite


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