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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.

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        These oxides are commonly met with in samples of wolfram and tinstone, especially niobic.
        A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Min...
        2
        At present, I am immensely occupied, engaged in collecting wolfram.
        The Road to Mandalay: A Tale of Burma
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        We have not examined barium, wolfram, or uranium.
        Occult Chemistry: Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Eleme...
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        Oil, rubies, trams, wolfram, rubber, and so on.
        The Road to Mandalay: A Tale of Burma
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        The following analysis will illustrate the composition of a sample of Cornish wolfram as brought into the market:-
        A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Min...
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        Ingots of wolfram and Glantz steel.
        The Wise Man’s Fear
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        Do you know what wolfram is?
        The Road to Mandalay: A Tale of Burma
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        Subtract (1) from (3) to get the weight of wolfram taken:
        A Text-book of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Min...
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        Iron, copper, and arsenical pyrites, antimony, galena, molybdenite, zinc blende, and wolfram were treated in the above manner with similar results.
        Getting Gold: A Practical Treatise for Prospectors, Miners and S...
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        This chemical is a salt, made by roasting wolfram with soda ash, and wolfram is a native tungstate of iron and manganese.
        Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater; Or, The Most Dangerous Performanc...
        11
        In many places I saw mounds the marmots had made from copper ore and farther north some from minerals containing wolfram and vanadium.
        Beasts, Men and Gods
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        They have agents all over the country, who pull strings in wolfram and the ruby mines, and have a finger in every mortal thing.
        The Road to Mandalay: A Tale of Burma
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        In turn, the city could throw up enough low-grade molybdenum and wolfram as a byproduct of drilling to satisfy the terms of the Proctors.
        Cities in Flight
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        And in this case, Wolfram Alpha gets its results from Best Buy.
        Wired
        15
        The Project Gutenberg EBook of A History of China, by Wolfram Eberhard
        A History of China
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        The app is for the iPhone - Wolfram Physics I Course Assistant.
        Wired
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