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Tellurium \Tel*lu"ri*um\, n. [NL., from L. tellus, -uris, the earth.] (Chem.) 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. [1913 Webster] Graphic tellurium. (Min.) See Sylvanite. Tellurium glance (Min.), nagyagite; -- called also black tellurium. [1913 Webster]