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Discover LudwigThe word 'telluric' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that is associated with the Earth, such as the Earth's atmosphere, nature, or vibrational frequency. Example: The telluric energy of the mountains was palpable.
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telluric
adjective
Pertaining to the Earth, earthly
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A performance in Tokyo was captured for the live album Telluric Chaos (2005).
The smallest atoms group only three oxygen atoms about themselves; the next larger atoms, which coordinate a tetrahedron of four oxygen atoms, are in a diagonal belt; and the still larger atoms, which form octahedral oxygen complexes (stannic acid, antimonic acid, telluric acid, paraperiodic acid), lie below and to the left of this belt.
Telluric current, also called Earth Current, natural electric current flowing on and beneath the surface of the Earth and generally following a direction parallel to the Earth's surface.
It is the complete wartime swan song of a "righteous man" who strove with all his heart not to be an undergroundling but who now sees himself forced to the pavement and begins to realize that he may have to be a telluric creature after all because his age requires it.
He stumbles among bicycles and horseless carriages, through a hall of distorting mirrors, growing progressively more frightened of the machines, dreading 'their panting, their heavy, telluric breath, skinless bones, viscera creaking and fetid with black-grease drool.' Finally he conceals himself in the sentry-box of a periscope, and crouches there, waiting for the stroke of midnight.
It is astonishing, in the 21st century, that people are still allowed to burn mountainsides – destroying their vegetation, roasting their wildlife, vaporising their carbon, creating a telluric eczema of sepia and grey blotches – for any purpose, let alone blasting highland chickens out of the air.
Maya used to read the dictionary with her beloved grandfather, something we're reminded of when she drops words such as "lapidary" and "telluric".
His "free and anguished protest" was manifest in "the tearings of clothes, the pierced and wounded textures the telluric wound and the frightful truth of the homunculus".
It became fashionable in circles around Schmitt to refer to the cold war as a 'global civil war' (Müller 2003, 104 15) while Schmitt, in Theory of the Partisan, expressed his admiration of Mao's and Ho Chi-minh's partisans for exhibiting a "telluric" character and a "tie to the soil" while rejecting "world revolutionary or technicistic ideology".
Telluric currents arise from charges moving to attain equilibrium between regions of differing electric potentials; these differences in potential are set up by several conditions, including very low-frequency electromagnetic waves from space, particularly from the magnetosphere incident upon the Earth's surface, and moving charged masses in the ionosphere and the atmosphere.
Telluric currents are often used by geophysicists to map subsurface structures, such as sedimentary basins, layered rocks, and faults.
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