tellurium in English

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the chemical element of atomic number 52, a brittle, shiny silvery-white semimetal resembling selenium and occurring mainly in small amounts in metallic sulfide ores. It is a semiconductor and is used in some electrical devices and in specialized alloys.
Elements such as lead, tellurium , beryllium, chromium, phosphorus, and manganese have little or no effect on the corrosion resistance of coppers and binary copper-zinc alloys.
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1. tellurium Te 52

2. Methods of forming a tellurium alkoxide and methods of forming a mixed halide-alkoxide of tellurium

3. Antimony is significantly more electronegative than arsenic or tellurium

4. Telluric acid and its salts mostly contain hexacoordinate tellurium.

5. The infrared absorption spectrum of tellurium has a strongp-band at ca 11μm.

6. Crude selenium and tellurium were first converted to their respective oxides by treatment with concentrated nitric acid.

7. Bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) is a gray powder that is a compound of bismuth and tellurium also known as bismuth(III) telluride.

8. Nevertheless, germanium, rubidium, selenium, silicon, tellurium, and several other elements can be substituted for caesium in photosensitive materials.

9. In order to separate the partly overlapping activities iodine is co-precipitated on mercurous chloride in alkaline and tellurium in acid medium.

10. Gold sometimes occurs combined with tellurium as the minerals calaverite, krennerite, nagyagite, petzite and sylvanite (see telluride minerals), and as the rare bismuthide maldonite (Au2Bi) and antimonide aurostibite (AuSb2).

11. 15 There are a lot of tellurium minerals in them, such as petzite, calaverite, hessite, altaite , tellurbismuth, rucklidgeite and sylvan. The grade of some section of ore body is up to industrial grade.

12. According to the invention fluid sulphur is used as heat energy absorbent substance in admixture with 0.5-15 % by weight of selenium and/or tellurium, based on the total weight of the heat energy absorbent substance.

13. In order to prove this, scientists are working to detect "neutrinoless double-beta decay" - a situation in which natural decay of Tellurium dioxide crystals results in neutrinos giving away photons, electrons, and Antineutrons.In this case, if the particle really acts as its own antimatter, the antineutrinos will cancel each other out and make up a "neutrinoless" decay, with only 2.5