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

    Visited 9/18/2010 GeoTrailGuy took it to GHAGAFAP IX Ontario, Canada - 247.05 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 8/29/2010 GeoTrailGuy retrieved it from green thing Ontario, Canada   Visit Log

    I picked this up in one of the oldest caches in the area. Sadly the container needed some help so I picked up this tb to move along.

    Dropped Off 8/11/2010 SooMukwas placed it in green thing Ontario, Canada - 31.8 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 8/11/2010 SooMukwas retrieved it from RnGRRnGR's TB, GC Log Hotel and Trade Shop Ontario, Canada   Visit Log

    So heavy! Will move along soon!
    Discovered It 8/8/2010 El Chancho discovered it   Visit Log

    cool tb
    Dropped Off 8/6/2010 Geoing4 placed it in RnGRRnGR's TB, GC Log Hotel and Trade Shop Ontario, Canada - 3.16 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 8/5/2010 Geoing4 took it to Morrison South Micro #1 Ontario, Canada - 231.94 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 7/31/2010 Geoing4 took it to Long Island Mill Ontario, Canada - 81.59 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 7/31/2010 Geoing4 took it to The Waterfront Trail Ontario, Canada - 81.59 miles  Visit Log
    Visited 7/31/2010 Geoing4 took it to Long Island Mill Ontario, Canada - 236.05 miles  Visit Log
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