{"id":1857,"date":"2019-01-06T15:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2023-06-09T16:11:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T16:11:22","slug":"basque-fact-of-the-day-basque-brothers-discover-tungsten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2019\/01\/06\/basque-fact-of-the-day-basque-brothers-discover-tungsten\/","title":{"rendered":"Basque Fact of the Week: Basque Brothers Discover Tungsten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fausto_Elhuyar\">Fausto<\/a> (1755-1833) and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Juan_Jos\u00e9_Elhuyar\">Juan Jos\u00e9<\/a> (1754-1796) Elhuyar discovered the element <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tungsten#History\">tungsten<\/a> (atomic number 74) in 1783 in the town of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bergara\">Bergara<\/a>, Spain. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bfotd.elhuyar.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1858\" width=\"217\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bfotd.elhuyar.jpg 506w, https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/bfotd.elhuyar-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fausto founded and was the first director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palacio_de_Miner%C3%ADa\">Palace of Mines<\/a> in Mexico City.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tungsten is a key component of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ITER\">ITER<\/a>, the international effort to create a fusion reactor that creates more energy than it uses.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elhuyar.eus\/en\">Elhuyar Foundation<\/a>, named for the brothers, works to bring science and the Basque language together. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fausto (1755-1833) and Juan Jos\u00e9 (1754-1796) Elhuyar discovered the element tungsten (atomic number 74) in 1783 in the town of Bergara, Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[836,19],"tags":[1226,962,963,724],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basque-fact-of-the-week","category-people","tag-bergara","tag-fausto-elhuyar","tag-juan-jose-elhuyar","tag-tungsten"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sYNu-tX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6422,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions\/6422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}