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Tellurium

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tel=lu=ri=um

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun Tellurium has 1 sense

tellurium(n = noun.substance) atomic number 52, te - 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; Array

is a kind of chemical element, element

Derived form adjective telluric₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

Tellurium, n. [NL., from L. tellus, -uris, the earth.].

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. [1913 Webster]

Graphic tellurium. (Min.) See Sylvanite. -- Tellurium glance (Min.), nagyagite; -- called also black tellurium.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

Tellurium, n. Chem. a rare brittle lustrous silver-white element occurring naturally in ores of gold and silver, used in semiconductors.

Usage

Symb.: Te.

Derivative

telluride n. tellurite n. tellurous adj.

Etymology

L tellus -uris earth, prob. named in contrast to uranium

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