How to Use tellurium in a Sentence

tellurium

noun

• But the United States is second only to China in the amount of tellurium reserves.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 May 2022
• It will be sent to Canada to be refined into pure tellurium.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 May 2022
• Four of the elements are named after planets (Earth – in the form of tellurium, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus).
  — Mark Lorch, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2016
• Most of the tellurium produced comes from China and other countries.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
• Most tellurium is produced in China, as are 90% of solar panels.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 May 2022
• Already Utah is the only U.S. source of beryllium and could soon support important sources of helium, lithium and tellurium.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Nov. 2022
• Rio Tinto is building a plant at Kennecott that will recover tellurium, a critical mineral used in solar panels, from ore that has been dug up for its copper.
  — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021
• The researchers suggest that a family of mercury-cadmium-tellurium compounds appears to have the right properties.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 Feb. 2020
• Another close call is tellurium, which is used in industrial solar farms and where there may be only slightly more estimated resources than what would be required in a big green push.
  — Seth Borenstein, ajc, 27 Jan. 2023
• Some examples include cobalt, indium, tellurium and dysprosium; the only way to mine them is to purify them during the refinement of other elements.
  — Xiaozhi Lim, Discover Magazine, 16 May 2020
• The list also includes elements crucial to alternative forms of energy, such as tellurium found in solar panels and lithium used in batteries in electric cars and cellphones.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 21 May 2018
• And earlier this year the company started separating and selling tellurium, an element that is useful in making solar panels.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Sep. 2022
• In another nod to a clean energy future, the company also recently started refining tellurium at its Magna facility.
  — Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 June 2022
• Most of the worries about solar panel production have focused on the elements that go into the panels themselves, like gallium, cadmium, germanium, indium, selenium, and tellurium.
  — Doug Johnson, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2022
• Toxic to humans, tellurium is now critical to the technology on which human civilization increasingly relies.
  — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2022
• And many metals have production losses of 95 percent or higher: arsenic, gallium, germanium, hafnium, scandium, selenium, and tellurium.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 May 2022
• The United States is more than 75% import reliant on an additional 10 critical minerals: antimony, barite, bauxite, bismuth, potash, rhenium, tellurium, tin, titanium concentrate, and uranium.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• Depending on the kind of technology used, a solar module typically requires materials such as glass, silicon, copper, silver, aluminium, cadmium, tellurium, indium, gallium and selenium.
  — Mayank Aggarwal, Quartz, 26 May 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024