Tungsten out from under  
                       your thumb
Janet Kuypers 
1/1/22 Twitter-length Periodic Table poem 
for element #74, Tungsten (W) 
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Tungsten’s one of the hardest elements, 
good for extreme temperatures— 
it’s a shoo-in for building & tech. 
Thanks to China’s stranglehold, 
Tungsten’s now scarce. 
British Tungsten mining from tons of granite 
helps, so the once-empire helps us out 
from under the China empire thumb. 
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