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Beryllium copper (BeCu), also known as copper beryllium (CuBe), beryllium bronze, and spring copper, is a copper alloy with 0.5–3% beryllium. [1] Copper beryllium alloys are often used because of their high strength and good conductivity of both heat and electricity. [2] It is used for its ductility, weldability in metalworking, and machining ...
High purity beryllium can be used in nuclear reactors as a moderator, reflector, or as cladding on fuel elements. [112] [113] Thin plates or foils of beryllium are sometimes used in nuclear weapon designs as the very outer layer of the plutonium pits in the primary stages of thermonuclear bombs, placed to surround the fissile material.
Beryllium is used mainly in military applications, [66] but non-military uses exist. In electronics, beryllium is used as a p-type dopant in some semiconductors, [67] and beryllium oxide is used as a high-strength electrical insulator and heat conductor. [68] Beryllium alloys are used for mechanical parts when stiffness, light weight, and ...
Materion Corp. is a multinational company specializing in high-performance engineered materials.Among their products are precious and non-precious metals, inorganic chemicals, specialty coatings, beryllium, specialty engineered beryllium, beryllium copper alloys, ceramics, and engineered clad and plated metal systems.
First, and most publicized, was the contamination of the community’s groundwater by the Loral Corporation’s American Beryllium Co. (ABC). For more than 50 years, ABC machined toxic beryllium ...
Beryllide is an intermetallic compound of beryllium with other metals, e.g. zirconium, tantalum, titanium, nickel, or cobalt. Typical chemical formulae are Be 12 Ti and FeBe 5 . These are hard, metal-like materials that display properties distinct from the constituents, especially with regards to their resilience toward oxidation.
Beryllium-aluminum alloy an alloy that consists of 62% beryllium and 38% aluminum, by weight, corresponding approximately to an empirical formula of Be 2 Al. It was first developed in the 1960s by the Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, who called it Lockalloy, [1] [2] and used as a structural metal in the aerospace industry because of its high specific strength [3] and stiffness. [4]
From left to right: three alloys (beryllium copper, Inconel, steel) and three pure metals (titanium, aluminum, magnesium)An alloy is a mixture of chemical elements of which in most cases at least one is a metallic element, although it is also sometimes used for mixtures of elements; herein only metallic alloys are described.