1754–1796

Juan José 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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