Word: tungsten
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Then the current in the coils begins to fall. A secondary magnetic field deflects the electrons from their circular course. They spiral inward and hit a tungsten "target." Out bursts...
Twenty years ago he himself made headline news with his own experiments with atomic power, and The Literary Digest carried a long report on how Dr. Wendt had released atomic energy by bombarding tungsten in a vacuum tube at a temperature six times as hot as the sun and transmuting some of the tungsten into helium...
Ever since, its engineers have poked into the earth's crust in search of deposits of vanadium, tungsten, chromium and other rare metals. In Peru it controls the world's largest vanadium deposits, and a leaching plant nearly three miles above sea level...
...Gold and Tungsten. Sinkiang is mostly a vast grazing land, cut up by high mountains, in which are valuable gold and tungsten deposits and narrow, fertile valleys. Its capital, Tihwa (Urumchi), is the crossroads of the age-old silk caravan routes between China and the West...
...metallurgists' detective work proved that in some metals the Germans have been less badly off than supposed. They have had enough tungsten, for example, to shoot it away in armor-piercing projectiles...