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- Tellurium - n. - 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.
- Telluride - n. - A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical; -- formerly called telluret.