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Te Tellurium

Discovery: 1783
52 52 76 State: Solid
Forms Uses

This metallic crust
Melonite This ore is a soft contains tellurium, These glass fibres Fibre optics The Oxygen Group
gold, and silver.
but dense solid.
Sylvanite contain tellurium.

This deep red
colour comes
from adding
tellurium.
This semi-metal can form
silvery white crystals. Tellurium
Red-tinted glass bottle corroding

protects
bronze from
Pure tellurium crystals refined in a laboratory

easily in air.

The solar panels are
linked to power cells
Topaz solar farm, containing tellurium.
California, USA

Tellurium is one of the 10 rarest elements product when lead and copper are refined. Pure
on this planet. It gets its name from the Latin tellurium can take on two forms: a shiny, metallic
word tellus, which means Earth. This element is solid or a brown powder. This element is mainly
often found as a compound with another element, used in the glass of fibre optics, which carry
such as the metal nickel, as in the case of the ore high volumes of information much faster than
melonite. Tellurium is also produced as a waste copper cables. 173

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