telluriumn.

Brit.

/tɛˈljʊərɪəm/,

/tɛˈljɔːrɪəm/,

/tᵻˈljʊərɪəm/,

/tᵻˈljɔːrɪəm/, U.S.

/təˈlʊriəm/,

/tɛˈlʊriəm/

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Tellurium.

Etymology: < German †Tellurium (M. H. Klaproth 1798, in Chem. Annalen 1 100) < classical Latin tellūr- , tellūs earth (see Tellus n.) + German -ium -ium suffix, probably after German Uranium uranium n. Compare German Tellur (1800 or earlier, now the usual name for the element; compare earlier Tellurmetall (M. H. Klaproth 1798, in Chem. Annalen 1 101), Tellurit (1798: see tellurite n.), French tellure (1800, after German).

1. A chemical element, atomic number 52, which is a brittle, shiny, silvery-white semimetal occurring mainly in small amounts in metallic sulphide ores and used in specialized alloys and in the semiconducting material of solar panels. Symbol Te.

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the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > tellurium > [noun]

tellurium1798

1798 Monthly Mag. Oct. 291/1 Professor Klaproth..has given it the name of Tellurium.

1816 P. Cleaveland Elem. Treat. Mineral. & Geol. 565 Native Tellurium..always contains a greater or less quantity of gold, and sometimes embraces iron, silver, lead, copper, and sulphur.

1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. xiv. 124 Oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium, appear to form a natural group of elements, each uniting with two atoms of hydrogen to form a series of bodies possessing analogous properties.

1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students xiv. 343 Tellurium is an element bearing a striking resemblance to selenium, but, at the same time, more metallic in its properties.

1973 T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow (1975) i. 164 It's a complex poisoning, both selenium and tellurium.

2011 Washington Times (Nexis) 14 Sept. b1 China, in part through its control of tellurium, is increasingly dominating the market for solar manufacturing.

2. With modifying word: any of certain ores or minerals containing a significant quantity of tellurium, typically forms of nagyagite or sylvanite.Recorded earliest in white tellurium n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1g(c)(ii).bismuth-tellurium, black tellurium, graphic tellurium, etc.: see the first element.

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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > other miscellaneous minerals > [noun] > containing tellurium or olivine

olivine1794

tellurium1804

altaite1849

melonite1867

coloradoite1877

1804 W. Turton tr. C. Linnaeus Gen. Syst. Nature VII. 297 White tellurium.

1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 304 The [ore] named bismuthic tellurium is that from which it is most easily obtained.

1909 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 31 21 The ore is graphic tellurium containing about three per cent. of gold and a little silver in a vein rock of quartz.

2005 K. K. E. Neuendorf et al. Gloss. Geol. (ed. 5) 650/1 Sylvanite.., Syn: graphic tellurium; white tellurium; yellow tellurium; goldschmidtite.

Compounds

C1.

a. attributive. In sense ‘of or containing tellurium’, as tellurium alloy, tellurium mineral, tellurium ore, etc.

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1807 J. Murray Syst. Chem. III. vi. xx. 488 In the white or yellow sylvanite or tellurium ore, there is present a quantity of lead.

1834 W. Prout Chem., Meteorol. & Function Digestion i. iv. 142 Sulfur acids, selenium acids, and tellurium acids.

1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 304 In all, the characteristic tellurium minerals have been found.

1920 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 35 944 Tellurium fumes were given off probably in the form of hydrogen telluride.

1953 Copper in Instrumentation ii. 91 Tellurium copper consists of copper with the addition of approximately 0.5 per cent. tellurium.

1999 I. Kostov & R. I. Kostov Crystal Habits Minerals vi. 145 In tellurobismuthite..the bismuth atoms are surrounded only by six tellurium atoms.

2007 W. C. Preston Backup & Recovery ix. 276 The popular ablative recording method uses a tellurium alloy as a recording layer.

b. In names of chemical compounds.

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1868 H. B. Jones & H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) 224 Tellurium sulphides..are brown or black substances, which unite with metallic sulphides, forming salts called sulphotellurites and sulphotellurates.

1898 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 74 137 Tellurium tetrachloride crystallises from ether in long yellow needles containing 1 mol. of the solvent.

1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxv. 360 It also unites with sulphur trioxide to form tellurium sulphoxide, TeSO₃.

1988 F. A. Cotton & G. Wilkinson Adv. Inorg. Chem. (ed. 5) xiii. 517 Tellurium trioxide..dissolves rapidly in bases to give tellurates.

2012 T. Pradeep et al. Textbk. Nanosci. & Nanotechnol. xiv. 401 Tellurium nitrate powder is used as the Te source for sonication.

c. Objective with participial adjectives, as tellurium-bearing adj.

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1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 298 The belt of tellurium-bearing veins is found to extend from the Gray Eagle lode.., in a southerly direction.

1945 Jrnl. Amer. Water Works Assoc. 37 253/1 A high grade of rubber-covered cable..of the type having a tellurium-bearing outer jacket.

1996 Science 16 Feb. 922/2 The researchers started by dissolving cadmium- and tellurium-containing compounds in two separate solutions of..alkylphosphines.

C2.

tellurium chloride n. any of a number of binary compounds of tellurium and chlorine, esp. the tetrachloride (TeCl₄), a volatile pale yellow solid.

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1866 E. Frankland Lect. Notes 390 TeCl₂..Tellurium chloride.

1906 Analyst 31 94 The tellurium chloride which sublimes on the tube is driven forward by the application of a Bunsen burner.

2009 G. A. Olah et al. Superacid Chem. (ed. 2) iv. 444 Bjerrum and Smith..have studied the reaction of tellurium chloride with tellurium in molten AlCl₃–NaCl.

tellurium dioxide n. a white crystalline solid produced by reaction of tellurium and oxygen.Formula: TeO₂.

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1869 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. (new ed.) xiv. 141 When heated in the air it [sc. tellurium] burns with a bluish-green flame, forming white fumes of tellurium dioxide.

1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxv. 360 Tellurium burns in air to tellurium dioxide.., which also separates in a crystalline form from solutions of tellurium in nitric acid.

2001 Electronics Times (Nexis) 11 June 12 The computer uses an acousto-optical modulator made from tellurium dioxide to store a database of information in the form of acoustic waves.

tellurium glance n. [ < tellurium n. + glance n.², after German Tellurglanz (1820 or earlier)] Mineralogy (now rare or disused) = nagyagite n.

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the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > galena group > lead telluride

black tellurium1821

tellurium glance1821

nagyagite1849

1821 R. Jameson Man. Mineral. 281 (heading) Genus IV. Tellurium-Glance, or Black Tellurium.

1834 R. Allan Man. Mineral. 270 This species is denominated prismatic tellurium glance in Haidinger's translation of Mohs. He now however considers it as belonging to the pyramidal system.

1920 A. H. Fay Gloss. Mining & Mineral Industry Tellurium glance, nagyagite (Webster).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tellurium
释义	telluriumn. Brit. /tɛˈljʊərɪəm/, /tɛˈljɔːrɪəm/, /tᵻˈljʊərɪəm/, /tᵻˈljɔːrɪəm/, U.S. /təˈlʊriəm/, /tɛˈlʊriəm/ Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Tellurium. Etymology: < German †Tellurium (M. H. Klaproth 1798, in Chem. Annalen 1 100) < classical Latin tellūr- , tellūs earth (see Tellus n.) + German -ium -ium suffix, probably after German Uranium uranium n. Compare German Tellur (1800 or earlier, now the usual name for the element; compare earlier Tellurmetall (M. H. Klaproth 1798, in Chem. Annalen 1 101), Tellurit (1798: see tellurite n.), French tellure (1800, after German). 1. A chemical element, atomic number 52, which is a brittle, shiny, silvery-white semimetal occurring mainly in small amounts in metallic sulphide ores and used in specialized alloys and in the semiconducting material of solar panels. Symbol Te. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > tellurium > [noun] tellurium1798 1798 Monthly Mag. Oct. 291/1 Professor Klaproth..has given it the name of Tellurium. 1816 P. Cleaveland Elem. Treat. Mineral. & Geol. 565 Native Tellurium..always contains a greater or less quantity of gold, and sometimes embraces iron, silver, lead, copper, and sulphur. 1866 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. xiv. 124 Oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium, appear to form a natural group of elements, each uniting with two atoms of hydrogen to form a series of bodies possessing analogous properties. 1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students xiv. 343 Tellurium is an element bearing a striking resemblance to selenium, but, at the same time, more metallic in its properties. 1973 T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow (1975) i. 164 It's a complex poisoning, both selenium and tellurium. 2011 Washington Times (Nexis) 14 Sept. b1 China, in part through its control of tellurium, is increasingly dominating the market for solar manufacturing. 2. With modifying word: any of certain ores or minerals containing a significant quantity of tellurium, typically forms of nagyagite or sylvanite.Recorded earliest in white tellurium n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1g(c)(ii).bismuth-tellurium, black tellurium, graphic tellurium, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > other miscellaneous minerals > [noun] > containing tellurium or olivine olivine1794 tellurium1804 altaite1849 melonite1867 coloradoite1877 1804 W. Turton tr. C. Linnaeus Gen. Syst. Nature VII. 297 White tellurium. 1849 D. Campbell Pract. Text-bk. Inorg. Chem. 304 The [ore] named bismuthic tellurium is that from which it is most easily obtained. 1909 Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 31 21 The ore is graphic tellurium containing about three per cent. of gold and a little silver in a vein rock of quartz. 2005 K. K. E. Neuendorf et al. Gloss. Geol. (ed. 5) 650/1 Sylvanite.., Syn: graphic tellurium; white tellurium; yellow tellurium; goldschmidtite. Compounds C1. a. attributive. In sense ‘of or containing tellurium’, as tellurium alloy, tellurium mineral, tellurium ore, etc. ΚΠ 1807 J. Murray Syst. Chem. III. vi. xx. 488 In the white or yellow sylvanite or tellurium ore, there is present a quantity of lead. 1834 W. Prout Chem., Meteorol. & Function Digestion i. iv. 142 Sulfur acids, selenium acids, and tellurium acids. 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 304 In all, the characteristic tellurium minerals have been found. 1920 Public Health Rep. (U.S. Public Health Service) 35 944 Tellurium fumes were given off probably in the form of hydrogen telluride. 1953 Copper in Instrumentation ii. 91 Tellurium copper consists of copper with the addition of approximately 0.5 per cent. tellurium. 1999 I. Kostov & R. I. Kostov Crystal Habits Minerals vi. 145 In tellurobismuthite..the bismuth atoms are surrounded only by six tellurium atoms. 2007 W. C. Preston Backup & Recovery ix. 276 The popular ablative recording method uses a tellurium alloy as a recording layer. b. In names of chemical compounds. ΚΠ 1868 H. B. Jones & H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) 224 Tellurium sulphides..are brown or black substances, which unite with metallic sulphides, forming salts called sulphotellurites and sulphotellurates. 1898 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 74 137 Tellurium tetrachloride crystallises from ether in long yellow needles containing 1 mol. of the solvent. 1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxv. 360 It also unites with sulphur trioxide to form tellurium sulphoxide, TeSO₃. 1988 F. A. Cotton & G. Wilkinson Adv. Inorg. Chem. (ed. 5) xiii. 517 Tellurium trioxide..dissolves rapidly in bases to give tellurates. 2012 T. Pradeep et al. Textbk. Nanosci. & Nanotechnol. xiv. 401 Tellurium nitrate powder is used as the Te source for sonication. c. Objective with participial adjectives, as tellurium-bearing adj. ΚΠ 1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 298 The belt of tellurium-bearing veins is found to extend from the Gray Eagle lode.., in a southerly direction. 1945 Jrnl. Amer. Water Works Assoc. 37 253/1 A high grade of rubber-covered cable..of the type having a tellurium-bearing outer jacket. 1996 Science 16 Feb. 922/2 The researchers started by dissolving cadmium- and tellurium-containing compounds in two separate solutions of..alkylphosphines. C2. tellurium chloride n. any of a number of binary compounds of tellurium and chlorine, esp. the tetrachloride (TeCl₄), a volatile pale yellow solid. ΚΠ 1866 E. Frankland Lect. Notes 390 TeCl₂..Tellurium chloride. 1906 Analyst 31 94 The tellurium chloride which sublimes on the tube is driven forward by the application of a Bunsen burner. 2009 G. A. Olah et al. Superacid Chem. (ed. 2) iv. 444 Bjerrum and Smith..have studied the reaction of tellurium chloride with tellurium in molten AlCl₃–NaCl. tellurium dioxide n. a white crystalline solid produced by reaction of tellurium and oxygen.Formula: TeO₂. ΚΠ 1869 H. E. Roscoe Lessons Elem. Chem. (new ed.) xiv. 141 When heated in the air it [sc. tellurium] burns with a bluish-green flame, forming white fumes of tellurium dioxide. 1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxv. 360 Tellurium burns in air to tellurium dioxide.., which also separates in a crystalline form from solutions of tellurium in nitric acid. 2001 Electronics Times (Nexis) 11 June 12 The computer uses an acousto-optical modulator made from tellurium dioxide to store a database of information in the form of acoustic waves. tellurium glance n. [ < tellurium n. + glance n.², after German Tellurglanz (1820 or earlier)] Mineralogy (now rare or disused) = nagyagite n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > galena group > lead telluride black tellurium1821 tellurium glance1821 nagyagite1849 1821 R. Jameson Man. Mineral. 281 (heading) Genus IV. Tellurium-Glance, or Black Tellurium. 1834 R. Allan Man. Mineral. 270 This species is denominated prismatic tellurium glance in Haidinger's translation of Mohs. He now however considers it as belonging to the pyramidal system. 1920 A. H. Fay Gloss. Mining & Mineral Industry Tellurium glance, nagyagite (Webster). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1798
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