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4 unusual facts about Tungsten carbide


Tungsten carbide

A criticality accident occurred at Los Alamos National Laboratory on 21 August 1945 when Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. accidentally dropped a tungsten carbide brick onto a plutonium sphere, causing the subcritical mass to go supercritical with the reflected neutrons.

English guitarist Martin Simpson is known to use a custom made tungsten carbide guitar slide.

Roller skiing emulates cross country skiing and is used by many skiers to train during warm weather months.

WC2

Tungsten semicarbide WC2, a chemical compound of tungsten and carbon



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