Tel-lū'rie, a.
a. [Fr. tellurique, from Lat. tellus, telluris, the earth.]
- Pertaining to, or proceeding from, the earth. “Amid these hot, telluric flames.” Carlyle.
- Pertaining to, or containing, tellurium; as, telluric silver.
Telluric acid, an acid composed of one equivalent of tellurium, and three of oxygen.—Telluric iron, native iron in grains and plates or disseminated, highly magnetic, almost pure, or containing carbon, graphite, lead, or copper, but not nickel;—so called as distinguished from meteoric iron.—Telluric silver, a mineral consisting of tellurium and silver in combination.