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tellurium |
3 definitions found 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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