tellurium
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1. 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 (noun.substance)
| hypernym | : | chemical element, element, |
| definition | : | any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter (noun.substance) |
| substance meronym | : | graphic tellurium, sylvanite, |
| definition | : | a silver-white mineral consisting of silver gold telluride; a source of gold in Australia and America (noun.substance) |
| substance meronym | : | telluride, |
| definition | : | any binary compound of tellurium with other more electropositive elements (noun.substance) |
| derivation | : | telluric, |
| definition | : | of or relating to or containing the chemical element tellurium (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | telluric, |
| definition | : | of or relating to or containing the chemical element tellurium (adj.pert) |
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