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Tellurium
Telluur – Tellur – Tellure – Teluro – テルル – Теллур – 碲
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Telluur AfrikaansTellur Danish Tellur German Tellurium English Tellur Faroese Telluur Frisian (West) Tellúr Icelandic Tellur Luxembourgish Telluur Dutch Tellur Norwegian Tellur Swedish Italic
Teluro AragoneseTeluru Aromanian Teluriu Asturian Telluri Catalan Teluro Spanish Tellure French Teluri Friulian Telurio Galician Tellurio Italian Telüri Lombard Telluri Occitan Telúrio Portuguese Telur Romanian - Moldovan Slavic
Телур [Telur] BulgarianTelur Bosnian Тэлур [tèlur] Belarusian Tellur Czech Telurij Croatian Tellur Kashubian Телур [Telur] Macedonian Tellur Polish Теллур [Tellur] Russian Telúr Slovak Telur Slovenian Телур [Telur] Serbian Телур [telur] Ukrainian Baltic
Telūras LithuanianTelūrs Latvian Telūrs Samogitian Celtic
Tellur BretonTelwriwm Welsh Teallúiriam Gaelic (Irish) Teallùiriam Gaelic (Scottish) Çhellurium Gaelic (Manx) Teluryum Cornish Other Indo-European
Τελλουριο [tellourio] GreekՏելուր [telur] Armenian Telur, ²Telluri Albanian Indo-Iranian/Iranian
Tellür KurdishТеллур [tellur] Ossetian Теллур [Tellur] Tajik Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan
টেলুরিয়াম [ṭeluriẏāma] Bengaliتلوریم [tlwrym] Persian ટૅલ્યુરિયમનો [ṭelyuriyamano] Gujarati टेलुरियम [ṭeluriyama] Hindi Finno-Ugric
Telluur EstonianTelluuri Finnish Tellúr Hungarian Теллур [Tellur] Komi Теллур [Tellur] Mari Телури [teluri] Moksha Telluur Võro Altaic
Tellur AzerbaijaniТеллур [Tellur] Chuvash Теллур [tellûr] Kazakh Теллур [Tellur] Kyrgyz Теллур [tellur] Mongolian Tellur Turkish تېللۇر [tellur] Uyghur Tellur Uzbek Other (Europe)
Telurioa Basqueტელური [teluri] Georgian Afro-Asiatic
تيلوريوم [tallūriyūm] Arabicטלוריום [telurium] Hebrew Tellurju[m] Maltese Sino-Tibetan
Ti (碲) Hakkaテルル [teruru] Japanese 텔루르, 2텔루륨 [tellureu, telluryum] Korean เทลลูเรียม [tēllūriam] Thai Telua, Telu Vietnamese 碲 [di4 / dai3] Chinese Malayo-Polynesian
Teluryo CebuanoTelurium Indonesian Tellurium Māori Telurium Malay Other Asiatic
ടെലൂറിയം [ṭelūṟiyam] Malayalamதெலூரியம் [telūriyam] Tamil Africa
Telulu LingalaTelluriamo Sesotho Teluri Swahili North-America
Teluro NahuatlSouth-America
Teluryu QuechuaCreole
Telurimi Sranan TongoArtificial
Teluro EsperantoNew names
Telorion Atomic ElementsGew Dorseyville |
History & Etymology
Tellurium was discovered in a certain gold ore from Transylvania. This ore, known as "Faczebajer weißes blättriges Golderz" (white leafy gold ore from Faczebaja) or "antimonalischer Goldkies" (antimonic gold pyrite), was according to professor Anton von Rupprecht "Spießglaskönig" (argent molybdique), containing native Antimony (note). The same ore was analyzed by by Franz Joseph Müller Freiherr von Reichenstein (1742-1825) (note), chief inspector of mines in Transsylvania, he concluded in 1782 that the ore did not contain Antimony, but that it was Bismuth sulphide (note). A year later he reported that this was erroneous and that the ore contained mainly gold and an unknown metal very similar to Antimony (note). However, Müller was not able to identify this metal. He gave it the name aurum paradoxium or metallum problematicum because it did not show the properties predicted for the Antimony he was expecting. Müller sent samples to Torbern Bergman (1735-1784) for further analysis, but he died before he could do further analysis. Twelve years later, Müller, still searching for the new metal, sent a specimen to Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817). He succeeded and confirmed the discovery of the new metal. In his paper before the Academy of Sciences of Berlin of 25 January 1798 he gave the metal the "von der alten Mutter Erde entlehnten" name Tellurium, that derives of Latin tellus = Earth:
and in the French translation: (Cf. Selenium).
In his 1798 report Klaproth gave full credit to the original discoverer, Müller von Reichenstein, but forgot to mention the Hungarian chemist Paul Kitaibel (1757-1817), who in 1789 had independently discovered the new metal and had sent his report to Klaproth.
Kitaibel had in 1789 found the new element in an ore from Deutsch-Pilsen (Börzseny), which was considered to be molybdic silver (argentiferous molybdenite). Later, he also analyzed Müller's aurum problematicum and found that it contained the same new element. His report handed over to Klaproth, when he visited Vienna in 1796, who gave him a most favorable written report. He obviously forgot the whole matter or did not notice that it concerned the same metal, when he reported on Müller's metal.
Chemistianity 1873
HAYAN
TELLURIUM, a Sulphur displacer, Is a bright and silver-like metalloid, With rhombohedral crystals like Arsenic; 'Tis brittle, and an indiff'rent heat conductor. Further reading
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