Tungsten is transition element, and its toxic element,
- Contact with tungsten can irritate the skin and eyes. Irritation to the eyes will cause watering and redness and irritation to the skin will cause reddening, scaling and itching.
- •Inhaling tungsten can irritate the nose and throat. It also has the potential for causing transient or permanent respiratory diseases, such as occupational asthma and interstitial fibrosis. The symptoms of these diseases are productive coughs, wheezing, shortness of breath, chest-tightness and weight loss.
- Chronic health effects
- The following chronic (long-term) health effects may occur at some time after exposure to tungsten and can last for a long time:
- •Repeated exposure to very high levels of tungsten may affect the lungs and mucus membranes.
- •According to scientific research, exposure to tungsten can affect the growth of plants, cause reproductive problems in earthworms, and trigger premature death in certain aquatic animals. But whether or not tungsten can cause these chronic health effects in humans needs further study.Therefore we should avoid contact of this element.How can we do this?
Please go through the following RG links.
Article Comparative Assessment of Tungsten Toxicity in the Absence o...
Article Tungsten or Wolfram: Friend or Foe?
Article Metals and Health: A Clinical Toxicological Perspective on T...
Also, here is a Tungsten fact sheet from US EPA:
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2017-10/documents/ffrro_ecfactsheet_tungsten_9-15-17_508.pdf
Tungsten is toxic in all means ,but its related to health how?
u are not likely to experience any health effects that would be related to exposure to tungsten or tungsten compounds. Tungsten compounds have caused breathing problems and changed behavior in some animals given very large amounts of tungsten compounds, but you are not likely to be exposed to amounts of tungsten in the air you breathe or the food or water you take into your body that would be large enough to cause similar effects. If you are a worker who has inhaled tungsten heavy metal dust, your exposure would help determine if health effects similar to those seen in animals might occur.so no benefit of tungsten for health .
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