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beryllium
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Beryllium is a chemical element with symbol Be and atomic number 4. The vast majority of beryllium extant today is the product of spallation of larger atomic nuclei as a result of collision with cosmic rays and is a relatively rare element in the universe ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 The chemical element with an atomic number of 4; a light metal with specialist industrial applications. 2 (cx countable English) An atom of this element.
WordNet
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n. a light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element [syn: Be , glucinium , atomic number 4 ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glucinum \Glu*ci"num\, n. [Cf. F. glucinium, glycium, fr. Gr. ?, sweet. Cf. Glycerin .] (Chem.) A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
metallic element, 1863, so called because it figures in the composition of the pale green precious stone beryl and was identified in emerald (green beryl) in 1797 by French chemist Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763-1829) and first isolated in 1828. At first ...
Usage examples of beryllium.
There was cesium in Africa, beryllium in South America, but who knew when some cockeyed revolution would cut off the supply?
And here, reflector fifty-three, bottom slab eighty-eight, top slab with the hole in it for the bullet, eighty, plus the twelve of beryllium, two thirty-three.
It was rare and valuable in a pure state only because we had not as yet perfected a way of extracting beryllium cheaply.
If an aircraft plant, for instance needed a quantity of beryllium, I might be approached to find and purchase it on a commission or a flat sum basis.
In 1930, evidence was obtained to the effect that when beryllium atoms were exposed to alpha rays, something -call it N -emerged which could induce nuclear reactions.
Unfortunately, the figures available for the beryllium nucleus were not quite accurate, and when they were corrected the chance of a nuclear chain reaction involving beryllium disappeared.
His first attempt in that direction involved the interaction of a neutron with a beryllium nucleus in such a way that two neutrons were liberated.
However, it took a fast energetic neutron to interact with the beryllium nucleus, and only slow neutrons were liberated, neutrons with too little energy to interact with further beryllium nuclei.
There, far down below the very foundations of the city, great jaws of beryllium steel were guzzling the bedrock.
The colored beryllium metal of the wall had been ruled with 20,000 lines to the inch, mere scratches, but nevertheless a diffraction grating.
It was a good thing, he thought, that the Altairians were immune to beryllium poisoning.
This was the other time when we met, when we were at that conference in Caracas, the one about taking molybdenum and beryllium out of seawater.
May 1946, when a safety trainer was demonstrating how to perform a critical experiment with a beryllium cap over a plutonium sphere.
The tortured beryllium yielded up neutrons, which shot out in all directions through the uranium mass.
To split the first uranium nucleus by bombarding it with neutrons from the beryllium target took more power than the death of the atom gave up.