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tellurium (n.)
metallic element, 1800, coined 1798 in Modern Latin by German chemist and mineralogist Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817) from Latin
tellus
(genitive
telluris
) "earth" (see
tellurian
). With metallic element ending
-ium
.