Tungsten was discovered by Fausto and Juan Jose de Elhuyar at 1783 in Spain. Origin of name: from the Swedish words "tung sten" meaning "heavy stone" (the origin of the symbol W is "wolfram ", named after the tungsten mineral wolframite).

Tungsten used to be known as wolfram (from wolframite, said to be named from wolf rahm or spumi lupi, because the ore interfered with the smelting of tin and was supposed to devour the tin). The de Elhuyar brothers found an acid in wolframite in 1783 that they succeeded in reducing to the elemental metal with charcoal.

Tungsten originates from the Swedish words 'tung sten' meaning heavy stone. It was formerly called Wolfram hence the symbol of the element - 'W'.  From the name  meaning "wolf soot" was the name given to tungsten  Ancient alchemists called the metal "spuma lupi," the Latin words for  'wolf foam' which translated to the word "wolframite" in allusion to the objectionable scum or substance formed during the smelting of tin ores containing tungsten.

May we should call tungsten just as element because its Atomic number is 74, but there are different given names of tungsten in different languages worldwide, according to our study, the name given to tungsten as below:
The Chinese name is 鎢
The Latin name is Wolframium.
The Czech, German, and Norwegian name is Wolfram.
The Croatian and Swedish name is Volfram.
The Italian name is Wolframio.
The French name is Tungstnene.
The Portuguese name is Tungstenio.

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