/te loor"ee euhm/ , n. Chem.
a rare, lustrous, brittle, crystalline, silver-white element resembling sulfur in its properties, and usually occurring in nature combined with gold, silver, or other metals of high atomic weight: used in the manufacture of alloys and as a coloring agent in glass and ceramics. Symbol: Te; at. wt.: 127.60; at. no.: 52; sp. gr.: 6.24.
[ tellur- (s. of tellus ) earth + -IUM ]