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1755–1833
Fausto Elhuyar
Discovered tungsten in 1783.
Element
74WTungsten
1783
In 1783 the brothers Juan José and Fausto Elhuyar, in Bergara in Spain, made tungstic acid from the mineral wolframite and reduced it to the metal with carbon. The metal is called tungsten in English and wolfram in many other languages.
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