tungsten bronze

noun

: any of a series of highly colored lustrous crystalline compounds of variable composition that are mixed oxides of tungsten and usually sodium or other alkali metal, that are good conductors of electricity, and that can be made by reduction of a normal tungstate (as sodium tungstate Na2WO4 with tungsten) or of tungsten trioxide with sodium

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“Tungsten bronze.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tungsten%20bronze. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.

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