• ColeSloth
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    9 months ago

    Isn’t tungsten kind of brittle? And radioactive?

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      9 months ago

      The brittlenes apparently depends on the form it takes (polycrystalline or single-crystalline). And while there are some radioactive isotopes of tungsten most of them are synthetic and only made in a lab. The vast majority of the tungsten found on earth is stable.