Even though the age of the vacuum tube is long gone and the world has largely turned away from incandescent lighting, tungsten wire is still an important end product. A single ingot of tungsten ...
A RECENT paper from this laboratory 1 described the embrittlement of tungsten wire if it be heated in atmospheres containing even traces of ammonia. This work has been extended and has revealed a ...
The most striking example is tungsten filaments in electric lamps. One kilogram of tungsten produces a wire 3.5 kilometers long, or about 23 thousand filaments. Medical instruments are made from ...