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Tellurium Reference Rate — 10-Day Trend
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The Short Answer: Metalloid, Not Metal
Chemists place tellurium in the metalloid category — a small group of elements, including silicon and germanium, that sit on the boundary between metals and nonmetals rather than squarely inside either camp. Today's reference rate on this site is ₹10.43 per gram as of September 17, 2026, priced the same way as the site's true metals for market-coverage purposes.
- Symbol: Te
- Appearance: silvery-white, with a metallic lustre
- Chemical classification: metalloid
Tellurium Reference Rate by Weight
Today's Tellurium rate is Ten Rupees per gram. At this rate, 10 grams of Tellurium costs One Hundred and Four Rupees.
| Unit | Weight | Price (INR) | Price in Words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Gram | 1.0000 g | ₹10.43 | Ten Rupees |
| 8 Grams | 8.0000 g | ₹83.42 | Eighty Three Rupees |
| 10 Grams | 10.0000 g | ₹104.27 | One Hundred and Four Rupees |
| 100 Grams | 100.0000 g | ₹1,042.71 | One Thousand Forty Three Rupees |
| 1 Kilogram | 1,000.0000 g | ₹10,427.07 | Ten Thousand Four Hundred and Twenty Seven Rupees |
| 1 Ounce (oz) | 28.3495 g | ₹295.60 | Two Hundred and Ninety Six Rupees |
| 1 Troy Ounce | 31.1035 g | ₹324.32 | Three Hundred and Twenty Four Rupees |
| 1 Metric Ton | 1,000,000.0000 g | ₹10,427,067.00 | One Crore Four Lakh Twenty Seven Thousand Sixty Seven Rupees |
What Actually Separates a Metalloid From a Metal
Two properties do most of the work here. First, brittleness: hammer a piece of copper or gold and it flattens into a sheet; hammer tellurium and it cracks, a genuinely different mechanical behaviour from a true metal. Second, electrical conductivity: tellurium is a semiconductor, conducting electricity better than a nonmetal like sulfur but nowhere near as freely as copper or silver.
Why the metalloid label doesn't stop it being useful
That semiconducting behaviour isn't a limitation — it's exactly why tellurium matters commercially. Cadmium telluride's usefulness in solar cells and bismuth telluride's role in thermoelectric coolers both depend directly on tellurium's specific electrical properties as a metalloid, properties a true metal like copper simply doesn't have.
| Category | Example | Key Trait |
|---|---|---|
| Metal | Copper | Malleable, highly conductive |
| Metalloid | Tellurium, silicon | Brittle, semiconducting |
| Nonmetal | Sulfur | Poor conductor, brittle |
Tellurium Reference Rate — Last 10 Days
The most recent Tellurium price on record (2026-09-17) is Ten Rupees per gram. This is up by Less than One Rupees from the previous day's rate of ₹10.39.
| Date | Price (INR/g) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 | ₹10.43 | +0.03 |
| 2026-09-16 | ₹10.39 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-15 | ₹10.39 | +0.01 |
| 2026-09-14 | ₹10.37 | +0.02 |
| 2026-09-13 | ₹10.36 | +0.00 |
| 2026-09-12 | ₹10.36 | +0.01 |
| 2026-09-11 | ₹10.35 | -0.01 |
| 2026-09-10 | ₹10.36 | +0.05 |
| 2026-09-09 | ₹10.31 | +0.04 |
| 2026-09-08 | ₹10.27 | — |
Why This Site Prices a Metalloid Alongside Its Metals
The commercial world doesn't organize itself by strict chemistry-textbook categories. Tellurium trades, gets refined, and gets consumed by industry in the same commodity-market terms as this site's actual metals, so tracking and pricing it the same way reflects how the market actually functions — while this page stays upfront about the real chemistry underneath.
The comparison table and 10-day history above track tellurium's price trend regardless of classification. For a longer view, the site's own tellurium price history page holds real recorded data by year and month.
Tellurium's Classification — Common Questions
A metalloid. Chemists classify tellurium (symbol Te) alongside elements like silicon and germanium — materials that share some properties with metals and some with nonmetals, rather than fitting cleanly into either category.
Physically, it's brittle rather than malleable — a true metal like copper can be hammered into a sheet without shattering, while tellurium cracks. Electrically, it has semiconducting properties, meaning it conducts electricity better than a true nonmetal but not as freely as a proper metal.
For market-coverage purposes. Tellurium trades commercially alongside industrial metals, gets used in electronics and solar manufacturing the way many tracked metals do, and buyers and sellers in this market think of it in the same commodity-price terms — so this site prices it the same way, while being factually upfront about its actual chemistry.
Not directly — its price is driven by copper-refining byproduct economics and demand from solar and thermoelectric manufacturers, not by which chemistry category it falls into. The classification matters for understanding tellurium's physical behaviour, not its market dynamics.
Tellurium is silvery-white in its common crystalline form, with a somewhat metallic lustre that visually resembles a true metal even though its chemical behaviour doesn't fully match one — part of why the metal-versus-metalloid question comes up so often.
