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Definition of Telluric

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or containing the chemical element tellurium.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air.

Definition of Telluric

1. a. Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth.

Definition of Telluric

1. Adjective. Pertaining to the Earth. ¹

2. Adjective. (chemistry) Containing tellurium in a lower valency than in tellurous compounds. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Telluric

1. pertaining to the earth [adj]

Medical Definition of Telluric

1. 1. Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth. "Amid these hot, telluric flames." (Carlyle) 2. Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds; as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric acid. Telluric bismuth, hessite. Origin: L. Tellus, -uris, the earth: cf. F. Tellurique. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Telluric

tellur- tellural tellurane tellurantimony tellurate tellurates telluratian telluret tellureted telluretted hydrogen

tellurhydric tellurhydric acid telluri- tellurian tellurians telluric (current term) telluric acid telluric current telluride tellurides

telluriferous tellurion tellurions tellurious tellurism tellurite tellurite reductase tellurites telluritian tellurium

Literary usage of Telluric

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1850)
"Formed by dissolving telluric chloride, or telluric oxide, in hydrochloric acid.—2. By dissolving tellurium in aqua-regia.—The deep yellow solution, ..."

2. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Andrew Miller (1873)
"Their solutions, when acidulated, yield a black precipitate with sulphuretted hydrogen. When telluric acid, or one of its salts, is heated to redness, ..."

3. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1856)
"telluric TARTRATE. — The solution of telluric oxide in the aqueous acid ... telluric oxide, its hydrate, and telluric acid, which is thereby reduced to the ..."

4. Hand Book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1856)
"100-00 telluric TARTRATE. — The solution of telluric oxide in the ... telluric oxide, its hydrate, and telluric acid, which is thereby reduced to the oxide, ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"The results of calculations of the absolute telluric distribution of chlorine, bromine, and iodine are also given, as follows:— The cosmical importance of ..."

6. Spectrum Analysis in Its Application to Terrestrial Substances, and the by Heinrich Schellen, Jane Lassell, Caroline Lassell (1885)
"As Sirius gained in altitude, the intensity of these telluric hands ... The dark bands marked 1, 2, 3 are evidently telluric absorption bands common to both ..."

7. Madeira Spectroscopic: Being a Revision of 21 Places in the Red Half of the by Charles Piazzi Smyth (1882)
"And if, during the still prevailing dearth of proper experimental enquiries by the great Societies of London, the question be repeated as to what telluric ..."

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