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Occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold
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tellurium
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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 [syn: Te , atomic number 52 ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
metallic element, 1800, coined 1798 in Modern Latin by German chemist and mineralogist Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817) from Latin tellus (genitive telluris ) "earth" (see tellurian ) + -ium .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tellurium \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 ...
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Tellurium is a chemical element with symbol Te and atomic number 52. It is a brittle, mildly toxic, rare, silver-white metalloid . Tellurium is chemically related to selenium and sulfur . It is occasionally found in native form as elemental crystals. Tellurium ...
Wiktionary
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Etymology 1 n. 1 (context uncountable English) The chemical element with atomic number 52. Symbol: Te. 2 A single atom of this element. Etymology 2 n. A variant spelling of '''tellurion'''.
Usage examples of tellurium.
It is also found in some comparatively rare minerals, such as tetradymite, combined with tellurium, and associated with gold.
The tellurium is comprised of brass or wooden balls representing the Sun, Earth, and Moon with associated gears, arms, and pulleys, and is used to demonstrate the mechanics of eclipses and of the seasons.
The single finest tellurium in existence was built by the New England machinist, astronomer, and misanthrope, Benjamin Dee, in 1816.
So precisely constructed was it, in fact, that by the laws of sympathetic magic, a simple adjustment to the tellurium would change the seasons in the real world as well.
Then, desiring vengeance upon the world for unspecified slights, he cranked the tellurium around to winter, and tied down the handle.
His tellurium underwent various adventures and now rests forgotten in a box stored in a library basement, not far from the furnace.
How did so much tellurium, such an exotic high-tech material, get deposited on Venus?
It may be detected by the purple colour it imparts to strong sulphuric acid when dissolved in the cold, and by the black precipitate of metallic tellurium which its solutions yield on treatment with a reducing agent.
Oxygen, sulfur, selenium, and tellurium made up another, while lithium, sodium, and potassium were placed in a third.
Then Mendeleev looked at tellurium, which was supposed to have an atomic weight of 128.
In this state, the tellurium atoms are not bound to particular lattice sites and are scattered at random throughout the block.
It also requires approximately a microgram of tellurium, an element known to this world but not easily available.
Then, desiring vengeance upon the world for unspecified slights, he cranked the tellurium around to winter, and tied down the handle.