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There is another element--tungsten--which used to be known as wolfram in Britain, although this has been supplanted by tungsten .
Tungsten was first discovered in the United States in 1819, along with tellurium (with the symbol Te, it comes from Latin tellus , another word for terra , both meaning earth; compare the consonant shift between Latin puer , boy, and puella, girl) in Huntington, Connecticut, in a bismuth mine.
But there are a few curve balls here as well, such as tungsten (from tung sten , Swedish for heavy stone), first discovered in 1783, whose symbol is W, short for Wolfram (wolf-soot)—the German name for tungsten oxide.
An alternate derivation, spurious but appealing, was proposed to us while this article was in preparation, in a letter (8/20/1998) from Col. Frank Holan, USAF (retd.): The symbol for tungsten is W because it is Weird.
The probe contained two small tungsten filament lamps, 6 cm apart which emit white light, and two photo detectors with filters for 760 and 850 nm light located between the lights.