[time-nuts] beryllium oxide
Magnus Danielson
magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org
Fri Jan 16 19:59:41 UTC 2009
Mark Sims skrev:
> Three other places one may encounter beryllium are:
>
> 1) Beryllium copper springs and contacts, usually around 2-3% beryllium. Not likely to cause a problem unless you get your jollies grinding up springy metal and snorting the powder.
>
> 2) Beryllium tools! Tools (particularly screwdrivers and pliers) can be made out of pure beryllium metal. They are not magnetic, very strong, very light. They were used a lot in aerospace and military applications. One thing that used to appear on the surplus market was an EOD toolkit used by bomb disposal techs. Even had a beryllium hammer. These were wonderful tools which you might just find when clearing out old uncle Bob's estate...
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> 3) Nuclear reactors and weapons. Be careful when disassembling that surplus nuke you picked up on your last trip to eastern Europe...
Oh... where did I put that pile of junk? :->
> Beryllium was originally called glucinium becuase it and its salts tasted very sweet. In fact, tasting used to be a diagnostic test for the presence of beryllium.
Sounds dangerous...
I have encountered Beryllium in a field none of you mentioned, as
material for speaker cones. Light and very rigid. Perfect for the top
driver for horns. I recall something about high speed of sound.
Cheers,
Magnus
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