It is rarely referred to as tungsten here in the USA, but if you’re talking to anyone with a chemical or metallurgical background they’ll know what you mean. In most other contexts, it just doesn’t matter because they probably don’t really know what tungsten is either
Wow, that's news for me - I was under the impression that the correct English term is tungsten, even though in Russian and dune other languages it is actually called wolfram. Thanks!