About The Word Tellurium
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Tellurium
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What's The Definition Of Tellurium?
[n] a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold
Synonyms | Synonyms for Tellurium: atomic number 52 | Te Related Terms | Find terms related to Tellurium: See Also | chemical element | element | graphic tellurium | sylvanite | telluride Tellurium In Webster's Dictionary \Tel*lu"ri*um\, n. [NL., from L. tellus, -uris, the
earth.] (Chem.)
A rare nonmetallic element, analogous to sulphur and
selenium, occasionally found native as a substance of a
silver-white metallic luster, but usually combined with
metals, as with gold and silver in the mineral sylvanite,
with mercury in Coloradoite, etc. Symbol Te. Atomic weight
125.2.
{Graphic tellurium}. (Min.) See {Sylvanite}.
{Tellurium glance} (Min.), nagyagite; -- called also {black
tellurium}.
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