TELLURIDE

telluride

(noun) any binary compound of tellurium with other more electropositive elements

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

telluride (countable and uncountable, plural tellurides)

(countable, inorganic chemistry) A binary compound of a metal with tellurium; metal salts of tellurane

(countable, organic chemistry) Any organic compound of general formula R2Te (R not = H), the tellurium analogues of ethers

(uncountable, mineral) sylvanite

Proper noun

Telluride

A town, the county seat of San Miguel County, Colorado, United States.

Source: Wiktionary


Tel"lu*ride, n. (Chem.)

Definition: A compound of tellurium with a more positive element or radical; -- formerly called telluret.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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19 April 2025

CATCH

(verb) grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of; “did you catch that allusion?”; “We caught something of his theory in the lecture”; “don’t catch your meaning”; “did you get it?”; “She didn’t get the joke”; “I just don’t get him”


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According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.

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