Telluric silver
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Telluric silver (German: telluriumsilber, tellursilber) — is an obsolete trivial name, which collectors and mineral traders, miners, geologists and representatives of other applied professions actually applied to several rare ore minerals, tellurides of silver,[1]: 338 as well as to chemical compounds of similar composition.[2] It may refer to:
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In mineralogy
- Telluric silver or telluric silver glance — is Hessite, a rare ore mineral, silver telluride. Discovered and described in 1829, in the mines of Western Altai.
- Telluric silver or telluric silver-gold glance — is Petzite, a rare ore mineral close to hessite, a mixed telluride of silver and gold.
- Telluric silver (rare) or telluric silver glance — Sylvanite, a rare ore mineral mixed with gold and silver telluride, first found and described in Transylvania and was named after the place where it was discovered.
- Telluric silver (rare) or telluric silver blende — Empressite, a rare ore mineral, also silver telluride in composition. Discovered and described in 1914, at the Empress Josephine mine (English: Empress Josephine), Colorado.
- Telluric silver (rare) — Stützite, a rare ore mineral, also silver telluride in composition. Discovered and described in 1951 using a museum sample of a mineral from the Sacarambe mine (Romania).
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In chemistry
- Telluric silver — silver telluride, a binary inorganic compound of silver and tellurium, fawn crystals with the formula AgTe, — conditionally corresponding to the mineral Empressite.
- Telluric silver — silver telluride, a binary inorganic compound of silver and tellurium, gray or black crystals with the formula Ag2Te, — conditionally corresponding to the mineral Hessite.
- Telluric silver — pentasilver tritelluride, a binary inorganic compound of silver and tellurium, dark crystals with the formula Ag5Te3, — conditionally corresponding to the mineral Stützite.
