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Humans exposed to as little as 0.01 mg/m³ or less in air develop "tellurium breath", which has a garlic-like odor.[13] The garlic odor that is associated with human intake of tellurium compounds is caused from the tellurium being metabolized by the body. When the body metabolizes tellurium in any oxidation state, the tellurium gets converted into dimethyl telluride, (CH3)2Te, which is volatile and is the cause of the garlic-like smell. Even though the metabolic pathways of tellurium are not known, it is generally assumed that they resemble those of the more extensively studied selenium, because the final methylated metabolic products of the two elements are similar.

Tellurium is extremely rare, one of the nine rarest metallic elements on Earth