Analytical Methods for Elemental Te and Organo-Tellurium

As with selenium analysis, HGAAS also finds a place in Te determination. Basnayake et al. amended cultures of P. fluorescens K27 with 0.1 mM tellurite and, after 92-h growth, determined that approximately 34% of added Te was present as either precipitated, elemental Te in/or on centrifuged cells the balance of added Te remained in solution. In this same study, GC/MS was used for determination of DMTe in the same facultative anaerobe amended with tellurate. Earlier, GC/MS was used to analyze the headspace of a tellurium-resistant fungus amended with tellurite. This last is one of the few reports of the detection of dimethyl ditelluride in microbial headspace (see below). 

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