1. The Material Science and Industrial Genesis of Tungsten Carbide wedding rings Bands The remarkable properties of a tungsten wedding band originate not from a precious metal but from a sophisticated ceramic-metallic compound known as tungsten carbide (WC), a material forged from the elemental tungsten and carbon atoms. Tungsten itself, which is also called wolfram, is a rare chemical element with the highest melting point of any pure element on the periodic table, a property that immediately ...