Tellurium is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TELLURIUM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a rare chemical element, a silvery-white brittle metalloid resembling selenium
• the chemical element of atomic number 52, a brittle, shiny, silvery-white metalloid resembling selenium and occurring mainly in small amounts in metallic sulphide ores.
• brittle silvery-white nonmetallic element
• 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.
• 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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a semimetallic element that occurs in a silvery-white brittle crystalline form of metallic luster, in a dark amorphous form, or combined with metals and that is used especially in alloys and catalysts — see element table

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How to use TELLURIUM in a sentence

• Tellurium very closely resembles cadmium, and they are, therefore placed on the same diagram.
• Such substances are selenium, sulphur, arsenic, antimony, and tellurium.
• The oxides of tellurium and antimony will sublime, the latter in minute glittering needles.
• The metals tellurium and cadmium are susceptible of solution, but the heat required is a high one.
• This is often the case with sulphur, selenium, arsenic, and tellurium.
• Or if telluric acid be submitted to the reduction flame upon the loop of a platinum wire, it communicates to the outer flame the bright green of tellurium.
• If the sublimate found upon the charcoal in the first experiment be submitted to the blowpipe flame, the green color of tellurium is produced while the sublimate is volatilized.
• The oxide of tellurium and telluric acid gives a clear bead when it is hot, but white after it is cooled.
• After a continued blast, tellurium is completely volatilized, and the bead appears clear again, while a white sublimate is deposited upon the charcoal.
• Tellurium produces, under the same circumstances, an intense vapor, and deposits on the glass a white powder, which melts by heat into globules that run over the glass.
• That of antimony is white, while those of bismuth and tellurium are dark yellow.
• By exposing them to the flame of reduction, the sublimate of tellurium disappears and communicates an intense green color to the flame.
• The deposit of tellurium is of a bluish black color.

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