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I think you are talking about the element tungsten. Another name for this element is wolfram, named for being extracted from the mineral wolframite. The word is basically derived from the German phrase "wolf rahm" (wolf cream). It was called such a name as the element consumed tin during tin smelting.

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The symbol for tungsten on the Periodic Table is W, derived from the element's former name in German, "Wolfram." The element was originally discovered in a mineral called wolframite.

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