Matthew Clapham
Jul 21, 2023

Very interesting, Jack.

Another metal with an interesting German etymology is Tungsten, which has the chemical symbol 'W' because it originally went by the German name Wolfram, the 'Wolf' part supposedly referring to the huge amount of tin voraciously used up when smelting the ore, wolframite.

Matthew Clapham
Matthew Clapham

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Professional translator by day. Writer of silly and serious stuff by night. Also by day, when I get fed up of tedious translations. Founder of Iberospherical.

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