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Wulfenite from the Carnegie Mueseum of natural History
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i will at some piont sit down and not only finsih puting up my own art but a lot of my photography and some music and a lot fo art and short story bits. that will take a while :)
i will at some piont sit down and not only finsih puting up my own art but a lot of my photography and some music and a lot fo art and short story bits. that will take a while :)
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Named after the Austrian mineralogist, Frantz Xaver von Wulfen (1728-1805).
looked it up for ya. I know that Wulframite or wolframite depending on the time period it is derived from "volf," "wolf," and "rahm," "ram," for "froth", "cream," "soot" (Latin = Lupi spuma), perhaps in allusion to an objectionable scum or substance formed during the smelting of tin ores containing tungsten; possibly also derived from "lupus" and "wolf", which were alchemists' terms for antimony, for which it may have been mistaken as an ore.
Also Wulframite is the ore from which we get Tungsten the metal that is used in lightbulbs for filaments
looked it up for ya. I know that Wulframite or wolframite depending on the time period it is derived from "volf," "wolf," and "rahm," "ram," for "froth", "cream," "soot" (Latin = Lupi spuma), perhaps in allusion to an objectionable scum or substance formed during the smelting of tin ores containing tungsten; possibly also derived from "lupus" and "wolf", which were alchemists' terms for antimony, for which it may have been mistaken as an ore.
Also Wulframite is the ore from which we get Tungsten the metal that is used in lightbulbs for filaments
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