Travel Bug Dog Tag Space Age Metals: Tungsten

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Owner:
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Released:
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Origin:
Alabama, United States
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Current Goal

To travel to any "high tech" place, such as a machine shop, NASA, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, etc. and have a picture taken there. Any side trips to other locations are welcome, but take pictures!

About This Item

Elemental symbol: W
Atomic weight: 74

A steel-gray metal, tungsten is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite. It is remarkable for its robust physical properties, especially the fact that it has the highest melting point of all the non-alloyed metals; 6,192°F.

The name "tungsten" comes from the Nordic "tung sten", meaning "heavy stone".

This particular piece of tungsten was machined in the machine shop where I work, but the endmill cutter broke, gouged the edge and is therefore unusable.

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    Tracking History (10121.3mi) View Map

    Retrieve It from a Cache 12/23/2011 Los_Amantes retrieved it from Agency in a Box Virginia   Visit Log

    Mistakenly added this TB to Agency in Box. Actually left Splat/Snowball geocoin.
    Retrieve It from a Cache 11/20/2011 Los_Amantes retrieved it from Oxford Travel Bug-Coin Hotel North Carolina   Visit Log

    Picked up on my way to granny's for Thanksgiving. Back in Virginia.
    Dropped Off 11/6/2011 jatmo placed it in Oxford Travel Bug-Coin Hotel North Carolina - 506.72 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 10/30/2011 jatmo retrieved it from BFL Boot Camp VI - Cache'l Wolfinstein Ontario, Canada   Visit Log

    There is a local company that makes one of the more popular mobile telephones. That should be high tech enough. There is one cache not far from its headquarters that I haven't done yet so I'll drop it there.
    Dropped Off 10/29/2011 AngrySeagull placed it in BFL Boot Camp VI - Cache'l Wolfinstein Ontario, Canada - 16.79 miles  Visit Log
    Grab It (Not from a Cache) 9/27/2011 AngrySeagull grabbed it   Visit Log

    Me thinks TrimblesTrek might have forgotten to log his dropoff of this hunk of metal when he visited "Greystone Revisited" - ( http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=491bc00c-9e28-44c7-af00-19dfe8a622ed ).
    Discovered It 9/27/2011 AngrySeagull discovered it   Visit Log

    Surprised to find this hunk of metal hiding in "Greystone Revisited" - http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=491bc00c-9e28-44c7-af00-19dfe8a622ed. Picked it up and will pass along soon.
    PS: This TB was pulling my pants down on the run back to the car!
    Retrieve It from a Cache 10/23/2010 TrimblesTrek retrieved it from KB Trail - rail trail Ontario, Canada   Visit Log

    heavy metal!
    Dropped Off 10/23/2010 JohnnyP_ placed it in KB Trail - rail trail Ontario, Canada - 14.28 miles  Visit Log
    Grab It (Not from a Cache) 10/12/2010 JohnnyP_ grabbed it   Visit Log

    Cool TB. I'll move it along soon.
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