{"id":2803,"date":"2026-10-18T03:06:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T03:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2803"},"modified":"2026-10-18T03:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T03:06:04","slug":"tellurium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/tellurium\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Tellurium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tellurium is a brittle, silvery metalloid with semiconductor properties and uses in thermoelectric materials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Tellurium<\/strong> | It forms chalcogenide compounds, has multiple oxidation states and combines with metals to form useful alloys.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Tellurium<\/strong> | Tellurium is recovered as a byproduct of copper refining and used in thermoelectric devices, solar cells and metallurgy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Tellurium<\/strong> | Stable isotopes include Te 120 to Te 130; tellurium compounds can be toxic and handled with standard precautions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rare metalloid used in thermoelectrics and semiconductor alloys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5930,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2803\/revisions\/5930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}