(noun) 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.
Tellurium tanım:
Kelime: tel·lu·ri·um Söyleniş:t&-'lur-E-&m, te- İşlev:noun Kökeni: New Latin, from Latin tellur-, tellus earth : a semimetallic element related to selenium and sulfur that occurs in a silvery white brittle crystalline form of metallic luster, in a dark amorphous form, or combined with metals and that is used especially in alloys -- see ELEMENT table