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Tungsten

2 stages from Swedish to English.

Today it means a hard, dense metallic element used in light bulb filaments and tools
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Stage 1 of 2
tung sten
Swedish · 1700s
"heavy stone"
literally "heavy stone", describing the dense mineral
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Stage 2 of 2
tungsten
English · 1700s
"a dense, hard metallic element"
adopted directly from Swedish mineralogy
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