a. Chem. Now rare. [f. as prec. + -ED.] Combined with tellurium, as in tellure(t)ted hydrogen, a gaseous compound of hydrogen and tellurium, TeH2, formerly also called hydrotelluric or tellurhydric acid, and now hydrogen telluride.
1819. Children, Chem. Anal., 49. Telluretted Hydrogen Gas.
1826. Henry, Chem., II. 502. Tellureted hydrogen is absorbed by liquid potassa, but not by acetate of lead.
1869. Roscoe, Elem. Chem. (1871), 146. With hydrogen tellurium forms a colourless gas, telluretted hydrogen, which cannot be distinguished by its smell from sulphuretted hydrogen.
