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The jewelry industry makes rings of sintered tungsten carbide, tungsten carbide/metal composites, and also metallic tungsten. [78] WC/metal composite rings use nickel as the metal matrix in place of cobalt because it takes a higher luster when polished.
Tungsten carbide (chemical formula: WC) is a chemical compound (specifically, a carbide) containing equal parts of tungsten and carbon atoms. In its most basic form, tungsten carbide is a fine gray powder, but it can be pressed and formed into shapes through sintering [7] for use in industrial machinery, engineering facilities, [8] molding blocks, [9] cutting tools, chisels, abrasives, armor ...
Tungsten steel is any steel that has tungsten as its alloying element with characteristics derived mostly from the presence of this element (as opposed to any other element in the alloy). Common alloys have between 2% and 18% tungsten by weight along with small amounts of molybdenum and vanadium which together create an alloy with exceptional ...
Pages in category "Tungsten compounds" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Cemented carbide;
Ammonium paratungstate (or APT) is a white crystalline salt with the chemical formula (NH 4) 10 (H 2 W 12 O 42)·4H 2 O. It is described as "the most important raw material for all other tungsten products." [2]
Ferrotungsten is relatively expensive, with the prices around $31–44 per kilogram of contained tungsten. [4] During World War 2, over 21,000,000 lb of Ferro-tungsten and other ferroalloys were shipped to Russia on lend-lease. [3] The cost was more than $12,000,000. Ferrotungsten comes from rich ore raw materials primarily of wolframite or ...
Sodium tungstate is obtained by digestion of tungsten ores, the economically important representatives of which are tungstates, in base. Illustrative is the extraction of sodium tungstate from wolframite: [1] Fe/MnWO 4 + 2 NaOH + 2 H 2 O → Na 2 WO 4 ·2H 2 O + Fe/Mn(OH) 2. Scheelite is treated similarly using sodium carbonate.
The dominant application of tungsten fluoride is in semiconductor industry, where it is widely used for depositing tungsten metal in a chemical vapor deposition process. The expansion of the industry in the 1980s and 1990s resulted in the increase of WF 6 consumption, which remains at around 200 tonnes per year worldwide.