Wolframit

Japanese: Wolframit
Wolframit

…When tungsten was mixed in with tin ore in the old days, it would take away a lot of tin and turn it into slag, so miners disliked it and called it Wolfrahm (German) because it was a ravenous wolf and the filth it produced. For this reason, tungsten ore (wolframite) was called Wolframit from around the 16th century, and the element came to be called Wolfram in German. In 1758, Swedish mineralogist A.F. Cronstedt extracted the element as a metal and called it tungsten (heavy stone in Swedish) because of its high density, and its oxide was also found in the mineral tungsten (present-day scheelite) by Swedish mineralogist K.W. Scheele. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Wolframit" are listed below.

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Japanese:

…古くスズ鉱の冶金に際してこれが混在すると,多量のスズを奪いとり鉱滓としてしまうことから,むさぼり食うオオカミ,オオカミの出す不潔物という意味で坑夫がWolfrahm(ドイツ語)と呼んで嫌っていた。このことから16世紀ころからタングステンの鉱石(鉄マンガン重石)をWolframitと呼んだが,これにちなんでこの元素はドイツ語系ではウォルフラムと呼ばれるようになった。また1758年スウェーデンの鉱物学者クロンシュテットA.F.Cronstedtがこの元素の金属単体をとり出し,比重が高いためtungsten(スウェーデン語で重い石)と称し,これの酸化物は,スウェーデンのK.W.シェーレによっても鉱物tungsten(現在の灰重石scheelite)中に見いだされている。…

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