It's also used commonly to counterfeit gold. It weighs only 0.36% less than gold does by volume. Every now and then you'll read about someone who bought some gold bullion bars find they were scammed by someone having drilled out holes in the gold bar and and replaced it with tungsten. It is nearly twice as dense as lead, has the highest melting point of any elemental metal, and has one of the highest tensile strengths as well. It is a very cool metal as far as properties go. As a reloader I've always wanted to have some bullets made out of this stuff just to see how well it would penetrate compared to the available military style penetrator rounds found on the market.
Jeff, you think you could turn me a few bullets down in this stuff? 0.224" and the same shape as an FMJ 223 / 5.56 projectile? If you could I might be interested in having about a half dozen made. If they worked well I may even have you make a hundred or so. Would be a very novel round to mess with. Not sure how they would treat my barrels though. May need to copper plate them.
