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Tungsten Carbide
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99% Tungsten Carbide
W-C-01
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99.9% Tungsten Carbide
W-C-03
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99.99% Tungsten Carbide
W-C-04
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99.999% Tungsten Carbide
W-C-05
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Tungsten Carbide is available in numerous forms and custom shapes including ingot, foil, rod, plate and sputtering target. High purity forms also include Carbide powder, submicron powder and nanoscale, single crystal or polycrystalline forms. Tungsten Carbide is generally immediately available in most volumes. Additional technical, research and safety (MSDS) information is available as is a Reference Calculator for converting relevant units of measurement.

Like diamond, a pure carbon compound, Carbide compounds tend to be extremely hard, refractory and resistant to wear, corrosion and heat, making them excellent candidates for coatings for drills and other tools. They often have other valuable properties in combination with toughness, such as electrical conductivity, low thermal expansion and abrasiveness.

Tungsten is a Block D, Group 6, Period 6 element. The electronic configuration is [Xe] 4f14 5d4 6s2. In its elemental form tungsten's CAS number is 7440-33-7. The tungsten atom has a radius of 137.pm and it's Van der Waals radius is 200.pm. Tungsten has the highest melting point of all the metallic elements and because of this has its first significant commercial application as the filament in incandescent light bulbs and fluorescent light bulbs. Tungsten is available as metal and compounds with purities from 99% to 99.999% (ACS grade to ultra-high purity); metals in the form of foil, sputtering target, and rod, and compounds as submicron and nanopowder. Later it was used in the first television tubes.

Formula CAS No. Appearance Molecular Weight
WC 12070-12-1 Silvery 195.86
PRODUCT CATALOG Submicron & Nanopowder Tolling Ultra High Purity Sputtering Target Crystal Growth Rod, Plate, Powder, etc.
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Recent Research & Development for Tungsten

  • Effect of sulfite treatment on total antioxidant capacity, total oxidant status, lipid hydroperoxide, and total free sulfydryl groups contents in normal and sulfite oxidase-deficient rat plasma. Cell Biol Toxicol. 2008 Jun 14. [Epub ahead of print]

  • Illuminating tungsten's life cycle in the United States: 1975-2000. Environ Sci Technol. 2008 May 15;42(10):3835-42.

  • Disinhibitory involvement of the anterior cingulate cortex in the descending antinociceptive effect induced by electroacupuncture stimulation in rats. Am J Chin Med. 2008;36(3):569-77.

  • Oxidative desulfurization: Kinetic modelling. J Hazard Mater. 2008 May 2. [Epub ahead of print]

  • Stability and reproducibility of radiometric properties of light curing units (LCUs). Part I: QTH LCUs. Dent Mater J. 2008 Mar;27(2):284-91.

  • Dentin bond strengths of three adhesive/composite core systems using different curing units. Dent Mater J. 2008 Mar;27(2):187-94.

  • Strongly nonlinear behavior of granular chains and granular composites. J Acoust Soc Am. 2008 May;123(5):3271.

  • Plate waves in phononic crystals slabs. J Acoust Soc Am. 2008 May;123(5):3038.

  • A semi-automated system for concentration of rhenium-188 for radiopharmaceutical applications. Appl Radiat Isot. 2008 May 3. [Epub ahead of print]

  • Characterization of exposures among cemented tungsten carbide workers. Part II: Assessment of surface contamination and skin exposures to cobalt, chromium and nickel. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2008 Jun 4. [Epub ahead of print]

  • Radiation energetics of ICF-relevant wire-array Z pinches. Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Apr 11;100(14):145002. Epub 2008 Apr 11.

  • Electron emission in superfluid and low temperature vapor phase helium. Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Mar 21;100(11):117602. Epub 2008 Mar 20.

  • Rapid and dynamic subcellular reorganization following mechanical stimulation of Arabidopsis epidermal cells mimics responses to fungal and oomycete attack. BMC Plant Biol. 2008 Jun 2;8(1):63. [Epub ahead of print]

  • Pristine Simple Oxides as Visible Light Driven Photocatalysts: Highly Efficient Decomposition of Organic Compounds over Platinum-Loaded Tungsten Oxide. J Am Chem Soc. 2008 May 31. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available.

  • Chromatographic performance of macroporous cellulose-tungsten carbide composite beads as anion-exchanger for expanded bed adsorption at high fluid velocity. J Chromatogr A. 2008 Jun 27;1195(1-2):60-6. Epub 2008 May 13.

  • Catechol siderophores control tungsten uptake and toxicity in the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Azotobacter vinelandii. Environ Sci Technol. 2008 Apr 1;42(7):2408-13.

  • Electrophysiological actions of the rubrospinal tract in the anaesthetised rat. Exp Neurol. 2008 Jul;212(1):118-31. Epub 2008 Apr 3.

  • Removal of ammonia from air on molybdenum and tungsten oxide modified activated carbons. Environ Sci Technol. 2008 Apr 15;42(8):3033-9.

  • Sensitive determination of bromine and iodine in aqueous and biological samples by electrothermal vaporization inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry using tetramethylammonium hydroxide as a chemical modifier. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom. 2008 Jun;22(12):1792-8.

  • Improved orthodontic stainless steel wires coated with inorganic fullerene-like nanoparticles of WS(2) impregnated in electroless nickel-phosphorous film. Dent Mater. 2008 May 19. [Epub ahead of print]

 

 

 

 

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