Telluride definition

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Divalent tellurium, or a compound of tellurium, especially a binary compound of tellurium with a more electropositive element.
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A town of southeast Colorado near the San Juan Mountains. Founded as a mining camp in the 1870s, it is a popular ski area and mountain resort.
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A compound of tellurium combined with an electropositive element or with a radical.
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A chemical compound of tellurium and another element, including gold and silver. Telluride is found in mineral ores.
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(countable, inorganic chemistry) A binary compound of a metal with tellurium; metal salts of tellurane.
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(countable, organic chemistry) Any organic compound of general formula R2Te (R not = H), the tellurium analogues of ethers.
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(uncountable, mineralogy) Sylvanite.
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Noun

Singular:
telluride
Plural:
tellurides

Telluride Sentence Examples

  • A friend who is staying in Telluride has a private plane and is flying back to the coast.

  • I'm going over to Telluride tomorrow and give the slopes a one day try.

  • The distance between Ouray and Telluride was less than twenty miles, on a map, or as the eagle soars, when he feels like a thrill.

  • At many of the mines at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, large quantities of ores of telluride of gold have been found in the lode formations.

  • The telluride, Ag2Te, occurs in nature as the mineral hessite.

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