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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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Heavy metals is a controversial and ambiguous term [2] for metallic elements with relatively high densities, atomic weights, or atomic numbers.The criteria used, and whether metalloids are included, vary depending on the author and context and has been argued should not be used.
Beryl is a beryllium compound that is a known carcinogen with acute toxic effects leading to pneumonitis when inhaled. [15] Care must thus be used when mining, handling, and refining these gems. [ 16 ]
Sintered beryllium oxide is a very stable ceramic. [16] Beryllium oxide is used in rocket engines [citation needed] and as a transparent protective over-coating on aluminised telescope mirrors. Metal-coated beryllium oxide (BeO) plates are used in the control systems of aircraft drive devices. [17]