Explore Tellurium through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like element. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Tellurium in a sentence
Tellurium meaning
- The chemical element with atomic number 52. Symbol: Te. A rare, brittle, mildly toxic, silver-white metalloid.
- A single atom of this element.
Synonyms of Tellurium
Using Tellurium
- The main meaning on this page is: The chemical element with atomic number 52. Symbol: Te. A rare, brittle, mildly toxic, silver-white metalloid. | A single atom of this element.
- Useful related words include: te, atomic number 52, chemical element, element.
- In the example corpus, tellurium often appears in combinations such as: of tellurium, tellurium in, and tellurium.
Context around Tellurium
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 12 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tellurium
- In this selection, "tellurium" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, silver, thicker, acute, compounds, board and vein stand out and add context to how "tellurium" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a sulfur tellurium arsenic or and acute tellurium poisoning can. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tellurium" sits close to words such as abakaliki, abbasi and abductors, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tellurium
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Exposure to tellurium can produce unpleasant side effects. (8 words)
Characteristics Physical properties Tellurium has two allotropes, crystalline and amorphous. (10 words)
Extended, low-level exposure to tellurium causes tiredness and indigestion. (10 words)
In their theoretical study, Ren's team examined a group of four of these materials: with one surface composed of either selenium or tellurium, and the other from either bromine or iodine—with both sides sandwiching a middle layer of astatine. (41 words)
During electrorefining of copper and nickel, noble metals such as silver, gold and the platinum group metals as well as selenium and tellurium settle to the bottom of the cell as anode mud, which forms the starting point for their extraction. (41 words)
Dyar and Gunter, pp. 644–648 Sulfides main Red cinnabar (HgS), a mercury ore, on dolomite The sulfide minerals are chemical compounds of one or more metals or semimetals with a sulfur; tellurium, arsenic, or selenium can substitute for the sulfur. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
However, the lack of tellurium compounds in the Falun mine minerals eventually led Berzelius to reanalyze the red precipitate, and in 1818 he wrote a second letter to Marcet describing a newly found element similar to sulfur and tellurium.
There are only 5 parts per billion of tellurium in the earth's crust and 15 parts per billion of tellurium in seawater.
In their theoretical study, Ren's team examined a group of four of these materials: with one surface composed of either selenium or tellurium, and the other from either bromine or iodine—with both sides sandwiching a middle layer of astatine.
The discovery of tellurium, a form of gold ore, in 1872 brought a new influx of people to the area.
The only natural gas coming out of Driftwood is through the trousers of Souki and the Tellurium board after an on-site catered lunch.
Secondarily, sampling on a number of outcropping quartz veins in the area around the porphyry targets identified a possible 1.1-kilometer (.7 miles) extension of the existing 2.4-kilometer (1.5 miles) gold-silver-tellurium vein system.
Solar panels gobbles up a significant share of the world’s supply of tellurium, and gallium, along with a sizable fraction of mined silver and indium.
Thicker tellurium films were also made under vacuum at room temperature via pulsed laser deposition, which blasted atoms from bulk and allowed them to form a stable film on a magnesium oxide surface.
Acute tellurium poisoning can cause vomiting, gut inflammation, internal bleeding, and respiratory failure.
A model that only includes the Earth, the Moon and the Sun is called a tellurion or tellurium, and one which only includes the Earth and the Moon is a lunarium.
As little as 10 micrograms of tellurium per cubic meter of air can cause notoriously unpleasant breath, described as smelling like rotten garlic.
Characteristics Physical properties Tellurium has two allotropes, crystalline and amorphous.
Chemically, sulfur reacts with all elements except for gold, platinum, iridium, nitrogen, tellurium, iodine and the noble gases.
During electrorefining of copper and nickel, noble metals such as silver, gold and the platinum group metals as well as selenium and tellurium settle to the bottom of the cell as anode mud, which forms the starting point for their extraction.
Dyar and Gunter, pp. 644–648 Sulfides main Red cinnabar (HgS), a mercury ore, on dolomite The sulfide minerals are chemical compounds of one or more metals or semimetals with a sulfur; tellurium, arsenic, or selenium can substitute for the sulfur.
Exposure to tellurium can produce unpleasant side effects.
Extended, low-level exposure to tellurium causes tiredness and indigestion.
He discovered tellurium in a sample of what is now known as calaverite.
Hence, Berzelius's first letter to Alexander Marcet stated that this was a tellurium compound.
However, they are not a commercially significant source of tellurium itself, which is normally extracted as a by-product of copper and lead production.
Common combinations with tellurium
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of tellurium 14×
- tellurium in 6×
- and tellurium 4×
- tellurium and 4×
- tellurium is 4×
- tellurium compounds 3×
- or tellurium 3×
- tellurium has 3×
- to tellurium 2×