different between telluride vs petzite

English

tellurium +? -ide

telluride (countable and uncountable, plural tellurides)

(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, mineralogy) sylvanite

Petz +? -ite, after chemist W. Petz.

petzite (countable and uncountable, plural petzites)

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

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