Tungsten

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. The Element Tungsten

   • Erik Lassner, Wolf-Dieter Schubert

   Pages 1-59

3. Tungsten History

   • Erik Lassner, Wolf-Dieter Schubert

   Pages 61-84

4. Important Aspects of Tungsten Chemistry

   • Erik Lassner, Wolf-Dieter Schubert

   Pages 85-132

5. Tungsten Compounds and Their Application

   • Erik Lassner, Wolf-Dieter Schubert

   Pages 133-177

6. Industrial Production

   • Erik Lassner, Wolf-Dieter Schubert

   Pages 179-253

7. Tungsten Alloys

   • Erik Lassner, Wolf-Dieter Schubert

   Pages 255-282

8. Tungsten and Tungsten Alloy Products

   • Erik Lassner, Wolf-Dieter Schubert

   Pages 283-305

9. Tungsten in Melting Metallurgy

   • Erik Lassner, Wolf-Dieter Schubert

   Pages 307-320

10. Tungsten in Hardmetals

    • Erik Lassner, Wolf-Dieter Schubert

    Pages 321-363

11. Tungsten in Catalysis

    • Erik Lassner, Wolf-Dieter Schubert

    Pages 365-375

12. Tungsten Scrap Recycling

    • Erik Lassner, Wolf-Dieter Schubert

    Pages 377-385

13. Ecology

    • Erik Lassner, Wolf-Dieter Schubert

    Pages 387-394

14. Economy

    • Erik Lassner, Wolf-Dieter Schubert

    Pages 395-407

15. Tungsten and Living Organisms

    • Erik Lassner, Wolf-Dieter Schubert

    Pages 409-416

16. Back Matter

    Pages 417-422

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Why does someone write a book about Tungsten? There are several reasons and precedents for this, the most important of which is that the last book on tungsten was written more than 20 years ago, in 1977, by St. W H. Yih and Ch T. Wang. During the intervening period there have been many new scientific and technological developments and innova­ tions, so it was not only our opinion but the view of many other members of the "tungsten family" that it was time to start writing a new book about tungsten. Preparations of the new book began in 1994. further impetus to the project was provided by the realization that in spite of this new knowledge having been presented at seminars or published in the technical press, a general acknowledgement of it by the majority of technicians and scientists is still far from being realized. It is our hope that this book will significantly contribute to a broader acceptance of recent scientific and technological innovations. An important prerequisite for such a project is the availability of a recently retired, experienced person willing to devote his time and talents to the tedious part of the exercise.

• Recycling
• X-ray
• alloy
• carbon
• electrochemistry
• iron
• metallurgy
• metals
• mineral
• nonmetal
• oxygen

• Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

  Erik Lassner, Wolf-Dieter Schubert

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