Atomic Number: 74

Atomic Weight: 183.84

Period Number: 6

Group Number: B6

Family Name: Transition Metals

Tungsten at Room Temperature: Solid, shiny, silver, and hard

Common Uses: making filaments for incandescent light bulbs, fluorescent light bulbs and television tubes (in old televisions not flat screens), are one of the heating elements in electric furnaces, as a targets for helping produce X-rays, and parts of spacecraft and missiles

Household objects that have Tungsten: filaments for incandescent light bulbs, fluorescent light bulbs and television tubes (in old televisions not flat screens), and Tungsten rings and jewelry.

Fun! Facts: Tungsten comes from the Swedish words tung sten, which means "heavy stone." Two chemists who were Spanish and were brothers found tungsten. Tungsten's chemical symbol letter “W” comes from its Germanic name, Wolfram.