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Telluride vs Petzite - What's the difference?

telluride | petzite |

As nouns the difference between telluride and petzite

is that telluride is while petzite is (mineralogy) a soft, steel-gray isometric telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity and usually associated with rare tellurium and gold minerals.

telluride

English

Noun

  • (countable, inorganic chemistry) A binary compound of a metal with tellurium; metal salts of tellurane
  • (countable, organic chemistry) Any organic compound of general formula R2Te (R not = H), the tellurium analogues of ethers
  • (uncountable, mineral) sylvanite

    • Derived terms

    *bismuth telluride *black telluride *cadmium telluride *cadmium zinc telluride *ditelluride *ethyl telluride *gold telluride *hydrogen telluride *mercury cadmium telluride *monotelluride *organic telluride *silver telluride *sulfotelluride, sulphotelluride *telluride of bismuth *telluride of gold and silver *telluride of hydrogen *telluride of lead *telluride of silver

    petzite

    English

    (wikipedia petzite)

    Noun

  • (mineralogy) A soft, steel-gray isometric telluride mineral generally deposited by hydrothermal activity and usually associated with rare tellurium and gold minerals.