tellurium : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: tellurium	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for tellurium
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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 Synonym(s): tellurium, Te, atomic number 52
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tellurium \Tellu"rium\, 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 The Elements (22Oct97) [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.