Metallurgists are learning to incorporate tungsten powder in uranium projectiles to improve stiffness.
The PowerPulse element filled with tungsten powder, which shifts weight toward the point of impact, enables players to put more power behind every shot.
Filaments made from sintered tungsten powder were quite fragile.
The process required pressing tungsten powder into bars, then several steps of sintering, swaging, and then wire drawing.
Some old, high-powered lamps used in theater, projection, searchlight, and lighthouse service with heavy, sturdy filaments contained loose tungsten powder within the envelope.
The new pellets are created by molding a mixture of tungsten powder and plastic polymer into spheres.
In 1937 he was convicted on a Federal smuggling-conspiracy charge involving 2,000 pounds of tungsten powder from Canada and then served two years in prison.
From there, the tungsten powder can be fused into any number of things, from wire to bars to other shapes.
Tungsten hexafluoride is commonly produced by the exothermic reaction of fluorine gas with tungsten powder at a temperature between 350 and 400 C:
Microwave synthesis is also possible, using tungsten powder as the reducing agent.