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.
Some cited guy named Frisch believes that the word actually comes from Latin nodulus which would be the adjective for 'knot, node', hence 'knotty'. Summary: So, what's certain, is that the English word is a loan from German. The rest is unsure, maybe it comes from the Latin word for knotty or from the Latin word for tiny or from the German word for dumpling (which in turn is related to knot). Views Â· View Upvotes.