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Tellurium   /tɛlˈʊriəm/   Listen
Tellurium

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: atomic number 52, Te.



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"Tellurium" Quotes from Famous Books



... forty-two, but metals, commonly so-called, number only twenty-nine. These are platinum, gold, tungsten, mercury, lead, palladium, silver, bismuth, uranium, vanadium, copper, cadmium, cobalt, arsenic, nickel, iron, molybdenum, tin, zinc, antimony, tellurium, manganese, tatiaum, chromium, columbium, rhodium, iridium, osmium, cerium. Many of these, however, are so rare, that as yet they are of no practical use. Gold has been known from the earliest ages, and is found ...
— The Mines and its Wonders • W.H.G. Kingston



Words linked to "Tellurium" :   te, sylvanite, element, telluride, graphic tellurium, telluric, chemical element, atomic number 52



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