Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or containing tungsten, especially with valence 6.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to or obtained from tungsten.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Chem.) Of or pertaining to tungsten; derived from, or resembling, tungsten; wolframic.
  • adjective an acid of tungsten, H2WO4, analogous to sulphuric and chromic acids.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective chemistry of or relating to tungsten
  • adjective chemistry containing hexavalent tungsten

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[tungst(en) + –ic.]

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