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Tellurium

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.

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Element 76% connected

One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are…

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Sylvanite 70% connected

A mineral, a telluride of gold and silver, of a steel-gray, silver-white, or brass-yellow color. It often occurs in implanted crystals resembling wri…

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Telluride 70% connected

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

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Alloy noun · 78% connection

a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each…

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Amphigen noun · 78% connection

An element that in combination produces amphid salt; -- applied by Berzelius to oxygen, sulphur, selenium, and tellurium.

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Arsenic noun · 78% connection

One of the elements, a solid substance resembling a metal in its physical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the n…

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Co noun · 78% connection

a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition

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Cobalt noun · 78% connection

a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition

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Cystine noun · 78% connection

A white crystalline substance, C3H7NSO2, containing sulphur, occuring as a constituent of certain rare urinary calculi, and occasional…

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Davyum noun · 78% connection

A rare metallic element found in platinum ore. It is a white malleable substance. Symbol Da. Atomic weight 154.

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Didymium noun · 78% connection

A rare metallic substance usually associated with the metal cerium; -- hence its name. It was formerly supposed to be an element, but…

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Erbium noun · 78% connection

A rare metallic element associated with several other rare elements in the mineral gadolinite from Ytterby in Sweden. Symbol Er. Atomi…

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Eucairite noun · 78% connection

A metallic mineral, a selenide of copper and silver; -- so called by Berzelius on account of its being found soon after the discovery…

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Gadolinium noun · 78% connection

A supposed rare metallic element, with a characteristic spectrum, found associated with yttrium and other rare metals. Its individuali…

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Gallium noun · 78% connection

A rare metallic element, found in certain zinc ores. It is white, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarcable for its lo…

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Germanium noun · 78% connection

A rare element, recently discovered (1885), in a silver ore (argyrodite) at Freiberg. It is a brittle, silver-white metal, chemically…

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Glucinum noun · 78% connection

A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in t…

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Hydrogen noun · 78% connection

a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and…

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Iodine noun · 78% connection

A nonmetallic element, of the halogen group, occurring always in combination, as in the iodides. When isolated it is in the form of da…

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Iridium noun · 78% connection

A rare metallic element, of the same group as platinum, which it much resembles, being silver-white, but harder, and brittle, and indi…

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La noun · 78% connection

a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth

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