The color of a kittenâs fur can give clues to its sex. Certain colors, like calico (large patches of black, white, and orange) and tortoiseshell (marbled black, orange/brown, and sometimes white), are carried on the X chromosome and require two X chromosomes to appear.
Tungsten, also known as wolfram, is a chemical element with the chemical symbol W and atomic number 74. The word tungsten comes from the Swedish language tung sten directly translatable to heavy stone, though the name is volfram in Swedish to distinguish it from Scheelite, in Swedish alternatively named tungsten.
As to where Rogers got the word, it could have come from an error on a French-made map from the early 1700s, where the Ouisiconsink (âWisconsin Riverâ) is misspelled âOuaricon-sint,â and broken so âOuariconâ sits on a line by itself or it might have been derived from the Algonquian wauregan or olighin, which both mean âgood and beautifulâ (and were both used in reference to the Ohio River at the time).