Definitions for tellurium

tellurium tel·lu·ri·um

Spelling: [te-loo r-ee-uh m]
IPA: /tɛˈlʊər i əm/

Tellurium is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 219 anagrams from letters in tellurium (eillmrtuu).

Definitions for tellurium

noun

  1. a rare, lustrous, brittle, crystalline, silver-white element resembling sulfur in its properties, and usually occurring in nature combined with gold, silver, or other metals of high atomic weight: used in the manufacture of alloys and as a coloring agent in glass and ceramics. Symbol: Te; atomic weight: 127.60; atomic number: 52; specific gravity: 6.24.

Origin of tellurium

New Latin (1798), equivalent to Latin tellūr- (stem of tellūs) earth + -ium

Examples for tellurium

It is found associated likewise with selenium and tellurium.

tellurium, or its acid and oxide, may be got as a sublimate in the tube.

When taken internally, even in very minute quantities, tellurium imparts to the breath an offensively powerful odour of garlic.

Palladium, rhodium and tellurium are also met with as alloys of gold.

They may both be obtained by the direct action of chlorine on tellurium.

His researches into the phenomena exhibited by tellurium, when forming a part of the Voltaic circuit, are highly interesting.

If the acid solution be diluted with water the tellurium precipitates unchanged.

Billy stood it until noon, then she caught up tellurium and rode off after the dog.

tellurium dissolves in cold concentrated sulphuric acid, to which it imparts a rich purple-red colour.

Hofmeister's37 work with tellurium in the dog is of interest in this connection.

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