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

    Grab It (Not from a Cache) 5/14/2015 mimacache grabbed it   Visit Log

    I found this last fall in the Black and Orange cache along the Amish Trail in Western New York. I placed it in The Great and Powerful Osgood cache at Allegany State Park during the Geobash.
    Discovered It 8/25/2014 mimacache discovered it   Visit Log

    I found this heavy little guy along the Amish geotrail in "Black and Orange" and will move it along shortly. My grandson thinks it's pretty cool.
    Retrieve It from a Cache 4/27/2014 OneHotBlonde retrieved it from Welcome to Ohio; A WVTim Tribute Cache Ohio   Visit Log

    Both my kids loved finding a BUG! :)
    Dropped Off 4/22/2014 weelock placed it in Welcome to Ohio; A WVTim Tribute Cache Ohio - 22.9 miles  Visit Log
    Retrieve It from a Cache 4/22/2014 weelock retrieved it from The Bug Stops Here - Travel Bug Hotel Ohio   Visit Log

    Drop this on your toe and you will cry. Moving on.
    Dropped Off 4/21/2014 Searchworm placed it in The Bug Stops Here - Travel Bug Hotel Ohio - 68.36 miles  Visit Log

    I decided to stay in this cache for a rest!

    Visited 4/21/2014 Searchworm took it to Marvels of transportation engineering Pennsylvania - 231.63 miles  Visit Log

    Tungsten TB stopped by for a visit.

    Visited 4/21/2014 Searchworm took it to J.O.E. I-90 Exit 45 (1) Pennsylvania - 232.19 miles  Visit Log

    Tungsten TB stopped by for a visit!
    Retrieve It from a Cache 4/13/2014 Searchworm retrieved it from Y did I put this here New York   Visit Log

    Grabed this one today out of the "Y did I put this here" cache. Will come along with me on a trip.
    Dropped Off 10/23/2013 dnnsgps placed it in Y did I put this here New York - 58.54 miles  Visit Log
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