Tungsten is a naturally spawning, rare mineral added by Redpower2. It has a strong resemblance of Coal and can only be distinguished by its lack of black definition like coal.

This block is considered to be most common near bedrock; however not proven. Its rarity makes it scarcer than both Diamonds and Uranium. It can be collected with an iron pickaxe or higher. At this time, the only use for Tungsten is to convert into EMC. It has an EMC value of 16,384, which is worth two diamonds.  Redpower2's creator has indicated that Tungsten will have a use in a future update of the mod.

TriviaEdit

• In reality, Tungsten is an extremely hard, yet brittle (unless extremely pure), metal with an array of interesting physical properties, including the highest melting point of any non-alloy metal (3422 degrees Celsius). For this reason, it is commonly used in light bulbs. Also, because of its notable hardness, Tungsten-Carbide alloy tool bits are primarily used in machine tooling of hard materials, alloys, and steels.  Tungsten is also used in computer chips for filling high aspect ratio holes as Tungsten only likes to stick to itself.
• The name "Tungsten" comes from the two swedish words "Tung sten", which directly translates to Heavy stone. 

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  Tungsten?

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    A Wikia contributor
    you dont, its mainly for condensing 2013-05-07T03:00:43Z
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    Ismael2m
    you can't smelt tungsten, you can only use it for emc generation. hope it helps, thesssearcher001 2013-05-07T14:59:48Z
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  tungsten

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    A Wikia contributor
    It isn't more common then diamonds. You probably just mine too low for diamonds or something. Or you just can't see them. 2013-04-22T20:58:57Z
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    A Wikia contributor
    there r a LOT of diamonds.  trust me, i'm a guy who has found 17 diamonds in one trip. 2013-04-24T11:22:37Z

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