telluriden.
/ˈtɛljᵿrʌɪd/, U.S. /ˈtɛljəˌraɪd/ΚΠ
1826 Boston Jrnl. Philos. & Arts 3 72 (table) Tellurides.
2. Chemistry. A compound of tellurium with a more electropositive element (as hydrogen or a metal), or with an organic radical; often with modifying word, as bismuth telluride, ethyl telluride, gold telluride, etc.
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telluride1832
hydroxide1851
oleic ether1854
organo-mercurial1858
triacetate1860
sulphone1872
sulphoxide1894
tetraalkyllead1923
organophosphate1945
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telluretted hydrogen1810
telluride1832
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telluric oxide1804
telluret1814
telluride1832
1832 A. D. Bache tr. J. J. Berzelius in Amer. Jrnl. Sci. 22 252 I shall, therefore, call those combinations of sulphur, selenium, tellurium, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and fluorine, with bodies less electro-negative than themselves,..by the names sulphides, selenides, tellurides, chlorides, bromides, iodides, and fluorides.
1837 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. 100 The orders Pyritinea, Galinea, and Adelinea, include the sulphurets, selenids, and tellurids, of the metals.
1877 H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 12) II. 141 Ethyl Telluride, Telluric Ethide, or Tellurethyl, Te(C2H5)2..is a heavy, oily, yellowish-red liquid..having a most intolerable odour.
1897 Daily News 30 Apr. 2/7 The vein contains telluride of gold, good quality.
1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxv. 356 Tellurium is separated from ores containing bismuth telluride, Bi2Te3, by heating with sodium carbonate.
1968 T. M. Disch Camp Concentration (1969) i. 70 It contained traces of sylvanite, one of the gold-bearing tellurides. So we're in a gold mine somewhere.
1984 N. N. Greenwood & A. Earnshaw Chem. of Elements (1986) xvi. 899 Most selenides and tellurides are decomposed by water or dilute acid to form H2Se or H2Te.
2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Apr. b3/1 The factory..would begin manufacturing thin-film photovoltaic panels made of a material called cadmium telluride.
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1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 305 The prominent mines of the telluride belt.
1906 D. D. Cairnes in Summary Rep. Geol. Surv. Canada 1905 27 This vein from which came also the rich telluride minerals, sylvanite, hessite and telluric ochre.
1996 R. Drewe Drowner (1998) 248 The optimistic marchers celebrating the wealth and fame of the town's telluride ore and the industry of its citizens.
2011 W. L. Pohl Econ. Geol. ii. 221/2 Telluride minerals of silver including hessite (Ag2Te) and empressite (AgTe) are not a relevant source of the metal.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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