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tellurium

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun tellurium has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

telluriumn. [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.

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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