[time-nuts] beryllium oxide
M. Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Fri Jan 16 20:34:03 UTC 2009
But what about the Beryllium Sphere? What happens when you activate
that?
Warner
In message: <BLU125-W6202A1D45DBC23668BB9ECED40 at phx.gbl>
Mark Sims <holrum at hotmail.com> writes:
: Three other places one may encounter beryllium are:
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: 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.
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: 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...
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: 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.
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