It happens all over the periodic table. The chemical symbol for lead ... high school cracked up every time she referred to the symbol for tungsten—that big, fat, unaccountable W.

Element 74 holds a few records in the periodic table — it has the highest melting ... von Eschenbach around the 1200s. In any case, tungsten — as it is known in English — is a rare metal ...

Counterintuitively, the trio of scientists proposes sending more junk into space, but a special kind of junk—an 18-mile-thick cloud of tungsten dust. The density of space junk peaks around 620 ...