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tung·sten

n :  a gray-white heavy high-melting ductile hard polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and molybdenum in many of its properties and is used esp. for electrical purposes and in hardening alloys (as steel) - symbol W - called also wolfram  - see ELEMENTtable   .
 
 

 
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