tellurium

/te-loor-ee-uhm/US // tɛˈlʊər i əm //UK // (tɛˈlʊərɪəm) //

碲化物,碲,碲化镉

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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Chemistry.
- : 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.

Palladium, rhodium and tellurium are also met with as alloys of gold.
It is also found in some comparatively rare minerals, such as tetradymite, combined with tellurium, and associated with gold.
The cross in tellurium is identical with that in cadmium, except that the centre is seven-atomed instead of four-atomed.
Tellurium very closely resembles cadmium, and they are, therefore placed on the same diagram.
Tellūrif′erous, containing tellurium; Tel′lūrous, pertaining to tellurium.