The Elhuyar brothers and the isolation of tungsten (1783)

On 28 September 1783 Juan José and Fausto Elhuyar reduced the acid of wolframite with charcoal and obtained a new metal, which they called volfram — the isolation of the element the periodic table lists as tungsten, symbol W, done in the laboratories the Real Sociedad Bascongada had set up at Bergara.