tungsten bronze

noun

: any of a series of highly colored lustrous crystalline compounds of variable composition that are mixed oxides of tungsten and usually sodium or other alkali metal, that are good conductors of electricity, and that can be made by reduction of a normal tungstate (as sodium tungstate Na₂WO₄ with tungsten) or of tungsten trioxide with sodium

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