Talk:Tungsten

Semi-protected edit request on 5 February 2024
Additional information for the history:

As early as the 16th century, the Freiberg mineralogist Georgius Agricola described the occurrence of a mineral in Saxon tin ores that made tin extraction considerably more difficult by slagging the tin content. The part of the name Wolf comes from this property, as the mineral “ate” the tin ore like a wolf. Whether this was wolframite is still controversial today, as Agricola spoke of the “lightness” of the mineral. He called the mineral lupi spuma, which translated from Latin means something like “wolf foam”. It was later called Wolfram, from the Middle High German rām “soot, cream, dirt”, as the black-grey mineral can be grounded up very easily and then resembles soot.[13] Its chemical symbol W comes from the name Wolfram.

Common in English, Italian and French, the word tungsten is derived from tung sten (Swedish for “heavy stone”). In Sweden at the time, this did not mean tungsten itself (Swedish volfram), but rather calcium tungstate. In 1781, the German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele recognized a previously unknown salt. !!!And then the rest of the history section can be kept!!! 2003:C9:8F0D:E00:E4D3:BD6:4945:BF29 (talk) 22:12, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 23:38, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Worldwide resources edit request
This reference below has Australia as having the second largest reserves of tungsten after China. It is published by the Australian Government agency Geoscience Australia and shows 394 kt and 11% of worldwide know reserves. I’d like to update the article to represent this.

https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/minerals/mineral-resources-and-advice/australian-resource-reviews/tungsten cweng50 (talk) 13:49, 10 February 2024 (UTC)