Tellurium
[te'ljuәriәm]
Definition
(noun.) 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.
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Definition
(n.) 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.
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Definition
n. an element by some classed as a metal placed by others among the metalloids brittle and crystalline of high metallic lustre bluish-white in colour with close analogies to sulphur and selenium.—n. Tel′lurate a salt of telluric acid.—adjs. Tel′lūretted combined with tellurium; Tellū′rian pertaining to the earth.—n. an inhabitant of the earth.—adj. Tellū′ric pertaining to or proceeding from the earth: of or from tellurium.—n. Tel′luride a compound of tellurium with an electro-positive element.—adjs. Tellūrif′erous containing tellurium; Tel′lūrous pertaining to tellurium.
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Examples
- Palladium, rhodium and tellurium are also met with as alloys of gold. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Of these receiving pins, one pair--1 and 3--are of iron, and the other pair--2 and 4--of tellurium. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- With this positive current the tellurium pins make marks upon the paper tape, but the iron pins make no mark. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In this case the iron pins mark the paper tape, but the tellurium pins make no mark. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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