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UK
/tɛlˈɔːɹiəm/
]
[ US /tɛˈɫʊɹiəm/ ]
[ US /tɛˈɫʊɹiəm/ ]
NOUN
- 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
How To Use tellurium In A Sentence
- CUORE scientists will wait for neutrinoless double-beta decay to happen in a 750-kilogram cube of tellurium dioxide placed under 1,400 metres of rock at the Gran Sasso laboratory. PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All
- Hazmat tested the white powdery substance and it appeared it's called tellurium, which is a silvery, white in color and it has a metallic type luster. CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2007
- Like selenium, tellurium is used in electronic devices.
- Bottom line, five people who have been exposed to this substance called tellurium as you explained to us Teri, have gone through the decontamination process or are continuing to go through the decontamination process. CNN Transcript Jan 11, 2007
- Tellurium reacts with both acids and some alkalis.
- Commodity costs, I think you are referring to tellurium, which is the issue for our type of industry. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
- Today, commercial solar cells have been capable of achieving a power-conversion efficiency of about 9 percent to 11 percent, though they are based on rare, expensive-to-procure elements such as tellurium and indium. Techworld Australia News
- The name tellurium came from the Latin word tellus meaning earth. Tellurium
- However, all the tellurite glasses were prepared using commercially available tellurium dioxide and were coloured, usually slightly, yellow-green.
- There are seven metalloids: boron, silicon, germanium, arsenic, selenium, antimony, and tellurium.
