Metals With the Highest Melting Points
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Metals With the Highest Melting PointsTungsten tops the list at 3,414 C, the highest melting point of any metal, more than 200 degrees above second-placed rhenium (3,186 C). This exceptional heat resistance explains tungsten's use in lamp filaments, rocket nozzles and cutting tools. Osmium (3,033 C) and tantalum (3,017 C) form a close third and fourth, followed by molybdenum at 2,623 C. Every entry on this list is a refractory transition metal, and all melt above 2,150 C, far hotter than everyday metals like iron (1,538 C) or aluminium (660 C). The values decline steadily from tungsten down to technetium (2,157 C), but even the lowest here would remain solid in temperatures that vaporise most common materials.
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- Data source
- Royal Society of Chemistry
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 10 observations
- Measure
- Melting Point (Celsius)
- Last updated
- 7 July 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
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