wolframite
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of wolframite
Example Sentences
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Cassiterite, wolframite, coltan: they might be the spoiled offspring of celebrity parents, or characters from an unfamiliar fairytale.
From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2010
They had done little with the colony's extensive deposits of iron ore, tin, antimony, wolframite, manganese and zinc.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seemed a cinch that neither Russia nor Germany would soon receive those particular tons of copper, tin, antimony, wolframite, molybdenite.
From Time Magazine Archive
It’s found in wolframite, and hubnerite and so on; but this is calcium tungstate, where it is found in connection with lime.
From Shadow Mountain by Coolidge, Dane
Important mines of gold and silver, considerable deposits of wolframite, valuable ores of molybdenum and vanadium, and quarries of onyx marble, are also worked.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
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