Beryllium
Beryllium is the first member of Group 2 of the periodic table. The members of this group are also called the alkaline earth elements. Beryllium's atomic number is 4, its atomic mass is 9.01...
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Beryllium
Beryllium is a steel-gray mineral which does not occur in a natural state. It is found in igneous rock, particularly in the minerals beryl and bertrandite. Formerly known as glucinium becaus...
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Beryllium
Symbol
Be
Atomic Number
4
Atomic Mass
9.012182
Family
Group 2 (Iia) Alkaline Earth Metal Pronunciation
buh-RIL-Lee-um
Overview
Beryllium is the lightest member of the alkaline earth metals ...
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This is one cleaning that could pass anybody's white-glove test. A high-tech dust rag developed by a research chemist at a nuclear weapons plant can pick up potentially deadly beryllium particles t...
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A federal judge has ordered the Labor Department to share with the public the results of years of toxic substance sampling in American workplaces. Federal officials said Monday they were reviewing ...
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American physicist and entrepreneur (b. Nov. 2, 1932,
New York, N.Y.
—d. Aug. 28, 2006,
Twin Falls, Idaho
), along with
Leon M.
Lederman
and
Jack
Steinberger
, was awarded the Nobel Priz...
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Federal regulators have ordered Atlantic Richfield Co. to take the first major step toward cleaning up contamination at an abandoned copper mine in northern Nevada, saying it poses an "imminent and...
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The major NYSE indexes moved higher Tuesday as traders awaited the outcome of the Federal Reserve meeting Wednesday. The S&P 500 added 0.6% while the Dow gained 0.5%. Volume was a bit lighter t...
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It might have been logical to assume that a slowing economy might dampen interest in metals stocks over the last year.Logical, but wrong.Instead, metal stocks keep rising as aircraft orders and con...
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The new president of Nigeria is urging the country to embrace nuclear power, although his own nuclear watchdog is struggling to track the radioactive materials already in use here."We need to devel...
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Nuclear lab develops powerful dust rag
