Hypertext Webster Gateway: "tellurium"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Tellurium \Tel*lu"ri*um\, 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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (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 [syn: {Te}, {atomic
number 52}]
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