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PRONUNCIATION OF TUNGSTEN CARBIDE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TUNGSTEN CARBIDE

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Tungsten carbide is a noun.
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WHAT DOES TUNGSTEN CARBIDE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Tungsten carbide

Tungsten carbide is an inorganic chemical compound containing equal parts of tungsten and carbon atoms. In its most basic form, tungsten carbide is a fine gray powder, but it can be pressed and formed into shapes for use in industrial machinery, cutting tools, abrasives, armor-piercing rounds, other tools and instruments, and jewelry. Tungsten carbide is approximately two times stiffer than steel, with a Young's modulus of approximately 550 GPa, and is much denser than steel or titanium. It is comparable with corundum or sapphire/ruby in hardness and can only be polished and finished with abrasives of superior hardness such as cubic boron nitride and diamond, in the form of powder, wheels, and compounds.

Definition of tungsten carbide in the English dictionary

The definition of tungsten carbide in the dictionary is a fine very hard crystalline grey powder produced by heating tungsten and carbon to a very high temperature: used in the manufacture of drill bits, dies, etc. Symbol: WC; melting pt: 2870°C.

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Synonyms and antonyms of tungsten carbide in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «tungsten carbide» into 25 languages

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The translations of tungsten carbide from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tungsten carbide» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

碳化钨
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

carburo de tungsteno
570 millions of speakers

English

tungsten carbide
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

टंगस्टन कार्बाइड
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

كربيد التنغستن
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

карбида вольфрама
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

carboneto de tungstênio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দুষ্প্রাপ্য ধাতু কারবাইড
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le carbure de tungstène
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tungsten carbide
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Wolframcarbid
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

タングステンカーバイド
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

텅스텐 카바이드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tungsten carbide
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

cacbua vonfram
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டங்ஸ்டன் கார்பைட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टंगस्टन कार्बाइड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tungsten karbür
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

carburo di tungsteno
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

węglik wolframu
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

карбіду вольфраму
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

carbură de tungsten
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

καρβίδιο του βολφραμίου
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

hard metaal
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

volframkarbid
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

wolframkarbid
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TUNGSTEN CARBIDE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tungsten carbide

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TUNGSTEN CARBIDE»

Discover the use of tungsten carbide in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tungsten carbide and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tool Materials
Structures are rated according to cobalt content and grain size (fine, medium, or coarse). For example, a 90WC-10Co alloy would be rated as 10-F, 10-M, or 10-C, depending on grain size and concentration of tungsten carbide. Microstructural ...
Joseph R. Davis, 1995
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Tungsten Carbide - Cobalt Cermets
This book, by a highly experienced industrial metallurgist, is a comprehensive source of information on these powders, covering every aspect from crystal structure through production, properties, testing, reclamation, toxicity and ...
Henri Pastor, 2012
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Standard Handbook of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering
The compressive strength of tungsten carbide is much greater than its tensile strength. It is a material whose usefulness is to be gained only within design arrangement that ensure compressive loading while protecting against shear and  ...
William C. Lyons, Ph.D., P.E., Gary J Plisga, BS, 2011
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Study of the Mechanical Behavior of Tungsten Carbide-cobalto ...
2.1.1.2 Carbide phase contiguity Whether tungsten carbide particles in sintered WC-Co composite form a continuous skeleton or not is still debatable. Based on Gurland's theory of particle contact, Warren and Waldron [5] suggested that in the  ...
Haibo Zhang, 2008
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High Temperature Behaviour of Tungsten Carbide and Boron ...
Metal matrix composites (MMC) can be applied to steel substrates as wear coatings.
Kimberley Anne Sandy, 2006
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Fracture Mechanics of Ceramics
Pure tungsten carbide has a fracture toughness which is among the highest of the refractory carbides (1)(2). Evidence of the good bounding between cobalt and tungsten carbide can be taken from wetting experiments, a consequence being a  ...
Richard Carl Bradt, 1983
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Grain Growth, Densification and Mechanical Properties of ...
ABSTRACT Over two decades, attempts to produce cemented tungsten carbide with nanocrystalline grain structure have been made to obtain dramatically improved mechanical properties to extend the lifetime and robustness of tungsten  ...
Xu Wang, 2008
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Chemical Vapor Synthesis (CVS) and Characterization of ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this research was to synthesize nanosized tungsten carbide and tungsten carbide-cobalt composite powders by chemical vapor synthesis (CVS). The CVS process was carried out by the reduction and carburization ...
Taegong Ryu, 2008
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Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety: Industries ...
Tungsten carbide (WC) has replaced diamond in large drawing dies and rock drills because of its extreme hardness. Tungsten compounds are also used in lasers, dyes, inks and ceramic frits. Some tungsten alloys are used in the nuclear and ...
Jeanne Mager Stellman, 1998
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Surface Hardening of Steels: Understanding the Basics
Tungsten Carbide Hardfacing Materials In contrast to the other weld overlay materials, the tungsten carbide composites do not rely on the formation of suitable hard phases during weld pool solidification. Instead, these overlay materials rely on ...
Joseph R. Davis, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TUNGSTEN CARBIDE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tungsten carbide is used in the context of the following news items.
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CVD Tungsten Carbide Coatings to Extend the Life of Tooling Used …
A brittle tool is prone to sudden catastrophic failure, and in any case a very hard material such as tungsten carbide-cobalt (WC/Co) is difficult and expensive to ... «Azom.com, May 15»
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Mincon acquires tungsten carbide manufacturer Marshalls
Irish engineering group Mincon Group has acquired tungsten carbide ... and assets of Marshalls have transferred to a new company, Marshalls Carbide Limited. «Irish Times, Mar 15»
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Global Cobalt Powder Market & 2015 Tungsten Carbide Powder …
The 2015 Market Research Report on Global Tungsten Carbide Powder Industry is spread across 162 pages profiling 21 companies active in the Tungsten ... «PR Newswire, Mar 15»
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Tungsten prices and market trends
Chinese export prices for ammonium paratungstate (APT) were said to be down $10 mtu in October to a range of $325-335/mtu, and tungsten carbide powder ... «Powder Metallurgy Review | ipmd.net, Dec 14»
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Trent West Awarded Permanent Injunction for Tungsten Carbide
Press Release: Trent West, the owner of nine patents that are related to the concept and manufacturing of Tungsten Carbide rings in the U.S., was awarded a ... «Rapaport, Nov 14»
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NanoSteel Enters 3D Printing Materials Space with Crack-free 99.9 …
“By extending the reach of steel into markets currently served by Nano-grained Tungsten Carbide-Cobalt (WC-Co), ceramics, and other non-ferrous metal matrix ... «3DPrint.com, Sep 14»
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Tungsten Carbide (WC) Powder Market - International, Chinese …
2014 Market Research Report on Global and China Tungsten Carbide Powder Industry is a professional and in-depth research report on the China Tungsten ... «PR Newswire, Aug 14»
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The perfect metal for bullets and missiles
Yet now we use tungsten to write with, to traverse glaciers, to emit X-rays and to ... automobile and many other industries out of tungsten carbide - a super-hard ... «BBC News, Jul 14»
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Engineering earth-abundant catalysts that mimic platinum in …
As Hunt explains, “Tungsten carbide forms at very high temperatures, typically over 800 degrees Celsius [1500 degrees Fahrenheit]. These high temperatures ... «MIT News, May 14»
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Trent West Gains Injunction Against Internet Sellers for Patent …
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Trent West, owner of nine patents related to the concept and manufacture of Tungsten Carbide rings in the ... «PR Newswire, Apr 14»

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