tellurium

Noun
  1. 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 (synset 114681407)
    is a type of: chemical element, element - any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter
    substance meronym:
    • graphic tellurium, sylvanite - a silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America
    • telluride - any binary compound of tellurium with other more electropositive elements
    same as: atomic number 52, te

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