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... > > 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 _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
