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单词 telluric
释义 I. telluric, a.1 Chem. and Min.|tɛˈl(j)ʊərɪk|
[f. tellurium + -ic.]
Derived from or containing tellurium. Applied to compounds in which tellurium is present in a smaller proportion than in tellurous compounds, as telluric acid, H2TeO4; telluric oxide = tellurium trioxide, TeO3, etc. Also in telluric gold, telluric silver, telluric bismuth, the tellurides of these metals occurring as native alloys: see telluride. telluric ochre = tellurite 1.
1800Henry Epit. Chem. (1808) 253 Carbonated and pure alkalies precipitate the telluric oxide.1842Brande Dict. Sc., etc. s.v. Tellurium, It forms a protoxide and a peroxide, often called tellurous and telluric acids.1864Webster s.v., Telluric silver, a mineral consisting of tellurium and silver in combination.1868Dana Min. (ed. 5) 30 Telluric Bismuth.Ibid. 50 Telluric Silver.1873Watts Fownes' Chem. (ed. 11) 214 Crystallised telluric acid is freely, although slowly, soluble in water.1882Rep. to Ho. Repr. Prec. Met. U.S. 607, I have only found, as yet, telluric gold in two mines in Nevada County.
II. telluric, a.2|tɛˈl(j)ʊərɪk|
[f. L. tellūr-em the earth + -ic.]
Of or belonging to the earth, terrestrial; pertaining to the earth as a planet; also, of or arising from the earth or soil.
1836I. Taylor Phys. The. Another Life ii. 24 The equal periods that are marked for us by the celestial and telluric revolutions.1842United Service Mag. i. 289 The great problem of telluric magnetism.1849Sir J. Stephen Eccl. Biog. (1850) II. 433 If my ideas had still obeyed those laws of association to which, in my telluric state, they had been subject.1861T. J. Graham Pract. Med. 666 Epidemic influences..dependent in a great measure upon obscure atmospheric or telluric conditions.1883St. James' Gaz. 21 Dec. 5/1 The spectrum..exhibits great breadth in the telluric or atmospheric lines,..due to aqueous vapours..in..the atmosphere.188419th Cent. Feb. 320 A ‘telluric poison’ is generated in it [the Campagna] by the energy of the soil.
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