Shows the position of Tellurium on the periodic chart.Tellurium's symbol on the Periodic Table
What does it look, feel, taste, or smell like?[edit | edit source]
Ultra pure tellurium crystal
Tellurium is a silver-white metalloid. Tellurium compounds generally smell awful. If a human being is exposed to tellurium, even in very small amounts — keeping in mind, tellurium is toxic, so people shouldn't be exposed to it, even in very small amounts — their body metabolizes it so that their breath then smells so horrible that, reportedly, lab workers exposed to tellurium had to be given a leave of absence till it worked out of their system.