Tellurium

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 48

(tel-uf -re-um)., sp. gr. 6.24, quantivalence II, IV, and VI. A nonmetallic element of bluish-white color, brittle, brilliant, easily fusible, and resembling sulphur in chemic properties. None of the preparations are used in medicine. The element itself, like selenium, imparts an extremely to the Table exhalations' and excreta of the body. fetid See odor Elements, of.