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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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 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}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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 [syn: {Te}, {atomic
number 52}]
From Elements database 20001107 [elements]:
tellurium
Symbol: Te
Atomic number: 52
Atomic weight: 127.60
Silvery metalloid element of group 16. Eight natural isotopes, nine
radioactive isotopes. Used in semiconductors and to a degree in some
steels. Chemistry is similar to {sulphur}. Discovered in 1782 by Franz
Miller.
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