Helper's head

[Stefan Persson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Willem Hajenius" <willem.hajenius at ping.be>
To: "DCML" <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
Sent: den 27 maj 2002 20:55
Subject: Re: Helper's head

> Halsten:
> > The wire is made of wolfram, which can withstand the extreme temperature
in
> > the wire without melting. Provided of course that there is vacuum inside
> > the light bulb to make sure it won't burn.
>
> They call it tungsten in America, for some reason. And how about potassium
(K)
> and sodium (Na)? :-)

Tungsten (W) was discovered in Sweden, I think. Tung = heavy, sten = stone
in Swedish. However, in Sweden we call it "volfram" (written with a "v," not
"w")...

Stefan