Jewelers are shunning pricey gold and embracing cheaper metals like tungsten, cobalt, even stainless steel for making items like wedding bands. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Forget about sentimentality ...

The production of tungsten carbide can be traced back to the early 1920s when the German electrical bulb company, Osram, sought alternatives to costly diamond drawing dies for tungsten wire ...

Tungsten (W) was one of the first alloying elements to be used methodically—as early as the mid-19 th century—to enhance the properties of steel. One of the most significant alloying elements in ...

New York, United States, June 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tungsten, also known as wolfram, is widely used in a variety of end-use industries due to its inherent properties, such as a high melting ...

Here we show that conventional tungsten and stainless steel wire electrodes can be coated with carbon nanotubes using electrochemical techniques under ambient conditions. The carbon nanotube ...

It is one of the sturdiest chemical compounds used in manufacturing, with double the density of steel. Tungsten carbide ...