Download or read book Uncle Tungsten written by Oliver Sacks and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before Oliver Sacks became a distinguished neurologist and bestselling writer, he was a small English boy fascinated by metals–also by chemical reactions (the louder and smellier the better), photography, squids and cuttlefish, H.G. Wells, and the periodic table. In this endlessly charming and eloquent memoir, the author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Awakenings chronicles his love affair with science and the magnificently odd and sometimes harrowing childhood in which that love affair unfolded. In Uncle Tungsten we meet Sacks’ extraordinary family, from his surgeon mother (who introduces the fourteen-year-old Oliver to the art of human dissection) and his father, a family doctor who imbues in his son an early enthusiasm for housecalls, to his “Uncle Tungsten,” whose factory produces tungsten-filament lightbulbs. We follow the young Oliver as he is exiled at the age of six to a grim, sadistic boarding school to escape the London Blitz, and later watch as he sets about passionately reliving the exploits of his chemical heroes–in his own home laboratory. Uncle Tungsten is a crystalline view of a brilliant young mind springing to life, a story of growing up which is by turns elegiac, comic, and wistful, full of the electrifying joy of discovery.
Download or read book Tungsten written by Erik Lassner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Cemented Tungsten Carbides written by Gopal S. Upadhyaya and published by William Andrew. This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an international expert, this book covers the processing, microstructure, and properties of cemented tungsten carbides. It is divided into 18 chapters covering wide areas from crystal structure to phase equilibria, production of metal and carbide powders, and much more. This book is ideal for researchers, plant engineers, and senior level students in metallurgical/mechanical/materials engineering who are interested in cemented carbides. There is no parallel book in print.
Download or read book Tungsten Carbides written by Alexey S. Kurlov and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book embraces the entire range of problems associated with phase equilibria in “tungsten – carbon” binary system and related ternary systems, nonstoichiometry, disorder and order in different tungsten carbides, electronic and crystal structure of these carbides. The main application of tungsten carbides is constituent in hardmetals for cutting tools. In the last 20 years, the most active efforts were made in synthesis and application of nanocrystalline tungsten carbide for the production of nanostructured hardmetals. The present book describes in detail different methods for production of nanocrystalline tungsten carbide. The peculiarities of sintering of Co hardmetals from nanocrystalline powders having different particle sizes are discussed. Materials scientists using tungsten carbide to create novel superhard and tough materials will find this book particularly useful.
Download or read book Tungsten written by William O. Vanderburg and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tungsten and the Elements of Groups 3 to 7 written by Nigel Saunders and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the periodic table, particularly tungsten and certain other metals, describing where these elements are found, how their atomic numbers are assigned, and uses for each element.
Download or read book Tungsten written by A. C. Rubel and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tungsten Ores written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tungsten Minerals and Deposits written by Frank Lee Hess and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tungsten Ores written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toxicological Profile for Tungsten written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Binary and Ternary Phase Diagrams of Columbium Molybdenum Tantalum and Tungsten written by J. J. English and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tungsten Powder Metallurgy written by Vincent David Barth and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tungsten Ore Concentrates from the People s Republic of China written by United States International Trade Commission and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analytical Chemistry of Molybdenum and Tungsten written by W. T. Elwell and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Series of Monographs in Analytical Chemistry, Volume 47: Analytical Chemistry of Molybdenum and Tungsten describes the chemical and instrumental methods of analysis of molybdenum and tungsten. This book is composed of 15 chapters that particularly consider detailed methods for determining these metals in typical samples and their alloys by both classical and modern techniques. The opening chapters discuss the history, occurrence, physico-chemical properties, and applications of molybdenum and tungsten. The succeeding chapters deal with the metals’ sampling, decomposition, separation, and qualitative detection. Considerable chapters are devoted to various chemical and instrumental methods for their analysis, including gravimetry, titrimetry, colorimetry, polarography, amperometry, coulometry, emission and atomic absorption spectroscopy, X-ray spectrophotometry, mass spectrometry, and radiochemical methods. The concluding chapter examines the determination of impurities and alloying elements. This book will prove useful to analytical and inorganic chemists, as well as analytical and inorganic chemistry students.
