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- Telluride - n. - A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical; -- formerly called telluret.
- Calaverite - n. - A bronze-yellow massive mineral with metallic luster; a telluride of gold; -- first found in Calaveras County California.
- Sylvanite - n. - A mineral, a telluride of gold and silver, of a steel-gray, silver-white, or brass-yellow color. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium.
- Petzite - n. - A telluride of silver and gold, related to hessite.
- Hessite - n. - A lead-gray sectile mineral. It is a telluride of silver.
- Nagyagite - n. - A mineral of blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster, generally of a foliated massive structure; foliated tellurium. It is a telluride of lead and gold.
- Tetradymite - n. - A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Called also telluric bismuth.