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 ...

Wear Parts. A large percentage of tungsten carbide is used in wear part applications, ranging from ballpoint pen balls to industrial dies, punches, and hot rolls for steel mills.

Bjoern Wylezich / Shutterstock. 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 ...

Before the war almost all the pure tungsten powder was supplied by Germany, whilst ferro-tungsten was manufactured in France and, on a small scale, in this country.