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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.
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.
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.
There is another element--tungsten--which used to be known as wolfram in Britain, although this has been supplanted by tungsten .
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.