How to Use beryllium in a Sentence

beryllium

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  • Smith said beryllium fit the bill for NASA for a few reasons.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 15 July 2022
  • The strength and lightness of beryllium-gold tiles allowed NASA to launch the largest mirror ever sent to space.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2022
  • Hydrogen burns to form helium, which burns to form lithium and beryllium, and onwards until the heart of the star is made of iron.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 June 2017
  • The inner vessel wall of the tokamak was upgraded from graphite to beryllium.
    — David Donovan, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2022
  • In the experiment, six of these quibits were used to map the energy states of the six electrons in the beryllium hydride molecule.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Bloomberg.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Powdered beryllium was pressed into blocks in Ohio, then cut to shape in Alabama.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
  • That’s because Webb’s mirror is made of beryllium, a strong but lightweight metal.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Protons from a synchrotron were flung against a target of beryllium atoms.
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Inside the reflector are cooling rods also made of beryllium, but one side is coated with boron.
    — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2019
  • Lithium, beryllium, and boron originate from cosmic rays that shoot across the universe.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Argon can be measured from the lava flows as the radioactive decay of potassium occurs in the rocks, while beryllium can be measured in the ice cores.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Its reflective surface is made of beryllium, a lightweight, silvery-white metal that’s used to make cogs and gears for aircraft.
    — Eric Killelea, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Dec. 2021
  • The Webb telescope has a mirror that’s about 21 feet across, made out of 18 beryllium hexagons, a metal that Materion specializes in.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 15 July 2022
  • The molten salt will likely be a mixture of lithium fluoride and beryllium fluoride, known as FLiBe.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
  • Ejected neutrons slam into the vessel’s walls, which are lined with beryllium and tungsten to resist the resulting heat.
    — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 17 July 2022
  • Every year, thousands of shipyard and construction workers are exposed to beryllium, which can scar the lungs and cause cancer.
    — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The aluminum isotope forms seven times as fast as the beryllium, and, once cut off from the surface by ice, decays twice as fast; the declining ratio between the two isotopes serves as clock.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 29 Oct. 2019
  • These contain toxins such as mercury, lead, beryllium, and arsenic, which can be harmful to the environment and our health.
    — Miriam Porter, House Beautiful, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Keeping that heat in place is a reflector made of beryllium, completely surrounding the core.
    — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2019
  • Webb’s main mirror is made of beryllium, a lightweight yet sturdy and cold-resistant metal.
    — Marcia Dunn, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Partly so that the telescope would not be too heavy to launch, engineers chose to make the mirrors out of the relatively lightweight element beryllium.
    — Richard Panek, Scientific American, 25 Dec. 2021
  • Soils below those levels are placed in other stockpiles, and further tested for beryllium and lead levels.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2018
  • The scientists’ first observation in 2016 was of an isotope of beryllium, and their second is of an isotope of helium.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Engineers built that mirror out of beryllium, a relatively rare metal that’s lighter than aluminum but stronger than steel.
    — Nadia Drake, Science, 25 Dec. 2021
  • Computer modeling confirmed that this was not due to their equipment and could not be explained by the nuclear physics of beryllium, lithium, or any known background process.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2019
  • Another gauge of erosion comes from a set of isotopes—of helium, beryllium, and aluminum—that form when cosmic rays bombard surface rocks.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 26 June 2019
  • Gary Sexton, a former chemical operator, has trouble breathing due to the beryllium levels at the plant, the lawsuit said.
    — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 30 June 2019
  • The early universe was made of something like 75% hydrogen, 25% helium, and traces of lithium and beryllium (that is, elements one through four, for those of you looking at a table of the elements).
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 22 Oct. 2018
  • The mine was originally developed for its beryllium in the 1980s with not much thought was given to the associated rare earth elements.
    — Aldo Svaldi, The Denver Post, 12 Jan. 2020
  • To double-check the finding, the researchers compared the date to beryllium levels – another chemical created by cosmic rays – in Greenland ice cores, and found confirmation.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023

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