01 n. A rare nonmetallic element, analogous to sulphur and selenium, occasionally found native as a substance of a silver-white metallic luster, …
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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.(Chem.)
Phrases & compounds
Graphic tellurium —
See Sylvanite.
Tellurium glance —
nagyagite; -- called also black tellurium.