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Is tungsten natural or man made?

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Anonymous

8y ago
Updated: 2/3/2022

It's man made. You can't find tungsten metal in the earth the way you can find gold. What occurs is a rock containing a metal compound, for instance the ore scheelite which contains calcium tungstate. Tungsten is extracted from it by first converting it to tungsten oxide and then reducing this with hydrogen.

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Ardella Ernser

Lvl 13
3y ago

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