Below you’ll find some physical properties of Paratellurite (Tellurium Dioxide) single crystals – TeO2
Colorless synthetic single crystal, grown from melt with Czochralski method
Symmetry: Tetragonal, 422 (D4)
Lattice distances: a = 4.8122 A; c = 7.6157 A
Molecular weight: 159.5
Density, g/cm3: 5.99 ± 0.03
Melting point: 733 0С
Hardness: 3 – 4 Moh’s hardness scale
Thermal expansion, ·10-6 К-1: α11 = 17.7; α22 = 17.7; α33 = 5.5
Transmission: 0.35 – 5.0 μm