# Tellurium ## 🧊 Tellurium · 3D (three.js) <iframe src="https://wikitube-elements.netlify.app/?el=Te&embed=1" width="100%" height="620" frameborder="0" style="border:0;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden" allowfullscreen loading="lazy" title="The Elements 3D microsim - Tellurium"></iframe> *Tellurium in the live three.js Elements explorer — drag to orbit the atom, click any tile to compare, slide the temperature.* · [▶ open full](https://wikitube-elements.netlify.app/?el=Te) <!-- ELEMENTS_MICROSIM:END --> !Tellurium plate.svg *Plate 52 of 118 - animated Bohr shells, stylized per Madelung filling; engraving style per house Arcanity kit.* ## Microsim To Do *Claimable rows, house pattern. 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**Official MAIN - Chemical element, Z = 52.** Part of the Elements Canon (one canonical page per element). Infobox grounded in [Wikipedia: List of chemical elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements), fetched 2026-07-08. Full article: [Wikipedia: Tellurium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellurium). <!-- ELEMENTS_MICROSIM:BEGIN (auto-managed block - edits inside will be overwritten) --> ## Key facts (infobox) | | | |---|---| | Symbol - Z | Te - 52 | | Group - Period - Block | 16 - 5 - p-block | | Atomic weight (Da) | 127.60 | | Density (g/cm3) | 6.24 | | Melting - Boiling (K) | 722.66 - 1261 | | Electronegativity (Pauling) | 2.1 | | Crustal abundance (mg/kg) | 0.001 | | Origin | primordial | | Phase (STP) | solid | | Name origin | Latin tellus, 'ground, earth' | *Bracketed weights are the mass number of the most stable isotope; values in parentheses are predictions (per the source table).* ## Story Tellurium was discovered in 1782 by Franz-Joseph Müller von Reichenstein while analyzing an ore suspected to contain gold. The element was named from the Latin tellus, meaning earth or ground. Tellurium is extremely rare in the crust (0.001 mg/kg), found almost exclusively as a minor constituent in gold, silver, copper, and sulfide ores. Tellurium is a brittle semimetal with silvery-white luster. Its primary use is as a dopant in semiconductor materials; tellurium compounds form narrow-bandgap semiconductors essential for infrared detectors and photovoltaic cells. [model-prior - verify] Cadmium telluride (CdTe) is a leading thin-film solar cell material. Tellurium metalloids in phase-change memory (PCM) devices enable rewritable optical media. [model-prior - verify] Tellurium forms volatile oxides and is handled with care in laboratories and industry. The corpus engages tellurium as a rare-earth-adjacent bridge element: scarce, yet foundational to semiconductor physics and modern photonics. ## Corpus connections - R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N. - the Chemistry hub - Centers of Excellence Portal - [[Technetium|Technetium - the element made before found]] - the canon's patron - and Technitium, the School - Solar System Mining Surveys - tellurium in semiconductor and photovoltaic materials ## Vocational-Technical Semiotics The element speaks the canon's shared signs: the periodic table cell (Te, group 16, period 5), isotope notation, and hazard pictograms ghs where handling demands it. ## Sources Infobox: [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements) (fetched 2026-07-08); etymology per the same table's notes. Story sources to be added at enrichment. ## Navigation - Canon: Elements Canon index - neighbors by Z: [[Antimony|Antimony (51)]] - [[Iodine|Iodine (53)]] - R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N. - Centers of Excellence ## Wikipedia : Wikitube **Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellurium) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/Tellurium) ## Previous hub tags Tree parents: [[Helium]] · [[Hydrogen]] · [[Oxygen]]. Legacy hubs: none. --- *Sources: 1 legacy note. Minted wave 1, 2026-07-30 (v1.6 order).*