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15down - Tin - I discarded for other metal, symbolically - Wolfram fits but why?

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panofsky | 12:09 Sun 07th Mar 2010 | Crosswords
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Wolfram is another name for Tungsten chemical symbol Tn
The chemical symbol is W, or at least it always used to be; when did it change?
My appologies bibblebub the symbol is indeed W, Tn is just an abbreviation
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Thanks paddywak and bibblebub.
The answer is clearly intended to be Wolfram (that's what I've put) but I can't find any reference that gives tn as an abbreviatiom for tungsten, even though that is the clue's intention.
Bibblebub- I have found this jewellers site where Tungsten rings are given the letters Tn.
http://www.risingtime.com/
There may be other examples but I haven't looked
Thanks for that - I don't have anything to do with jewellry, is that abbreviation common knowledge?
Sorry, don't know anything about jewellery either. But I have done a search on google for Tungsten Tn and it did throw up some academic papers where Tungsten is abbreviated to Tn. I'm not sure why though when there is a perfectly good symbol W.

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