Definition of tellurium Tellurium

/tɛlʊˈɹiʌm/ - [telureeum] - tel•lu•ri•um

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What does tellurium mean?

Noun Plural: telluria
tellurium - 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
		Te, atomic number 52
		chemical element, element the most favorable environment for a plant or animal; "water is the element of fishes"
		telluride any binary compound of tellurium with other more electropositive elements
		graphic tellurium, sylvanite a silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America

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tellurium (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.

tellurium
A chemical element with symbol Te and atomic number 52, a silver grey metalloid.
tellurium
A model that shows the movements of Earth, Moon and Sun and illustrates the phenomena of day and night change, the seasons, the lunar phases and eclipses.

tellurium
te-lū′ri-um, 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. [L. tellus, telluris, the earth.]

Tellurium is a chemical element. It has the chemical symbol Te. It has the atomic number 52. It is a a brittle silver-white metalloid. It looks like tin. The chemistry of tellurium is linked to some chemistry of selenium and sulfur.

The main use of tellurium is in alloys and as a semiconductor.