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Tellurium is my favorite element name because I once defused a brewing trademark problem by convincing a guy that "Tellurium" would be a better name than "Wolfram" for his planned software.
Reports Tryggvi:
I find it funny that you should have talked someone into using "Tellurium" for a trademark. Much of the chemistry of tellurium was only investigated after WWII, when "glove boxes" became commonly available. (Developed for handling nasty nuclear stuff). Tellurium is fairly toxic, but even sub-hazardous exposure will produce a BO so bad that friends and acquaintances will endeavor in staying far upwind from the hapless researcher. It may take weeks or months for the scent to go away.
Noted.
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Small crystal, 99.999%.
Kindly donated by David Franco, who sent many elements after seeing the slashdot discussion, and this one after I sent him some Mathematica t-shirts.
This is a very fine shiny and very pure crystal.
Source: David Franco
Contributor: David Franco
Acquired: 11 June, 2002
Price: Donated
Size: 0.2"
Purity: 99.999%
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Sample from the Everest Element Set.
Up until the early 1990's a company in Russia sold a periodic table collection with element samples. At some point their American distributor sold off the remaining stock to a man who is now selling them on eBay. The samples (excepted gasses) weight about 0.25 grams each, and the whole set comes in a very nice wooden box with a printed periodic table in the lid.
To learn more about the set you can visit my page about element collecting for a general description and information about how to buy one, or you can see photographs of all the samples from the set displayed on my website in a periodic table layout or with bigger pictures in numerical order.
Source: Rob Accurso
Contributor: Rob Accurso
Acquired: 7 February, 2003
Price: Donated
Size: 0.2"
Purity: >99%
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