Beryllium - Periodic Table of Videos
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So you can see on the front of this instrument is a dome shaped device. That dome is a specialvessel which is made so we can control the atmosphere inside and it is fabricated fromberyllium metal.This is the beryllium which I don’t really want to get out.Why not?Well, because it is a toxic chemical, a toxic metal.Beryllium is an interesting element because most chemists don’t really know about itvery much at all.So beryllium is a fantastic metal, it is really, really interesting, it’s got really lotsof strange metallic properties, but one of the most important to me is that it is transparentto x-rays. So I can shine x-rays straight through the beryllium and the beryllium doesnot absorb it at all which most other metals especially those with higher molecular...
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So you can see on the front of this instrument is a dome shaped device. That dome is a specialvessel which is made so we can control the atmosphere inside and it is fabricated fromberyllium metal.This is the beryllium which I don’t really want to get out.Why not?Well, because it is a toxic chemical, a toxic metal.Beryllium is an interesting element because most chemists don’t really know about itvery much at all.So beryllium is a fantastic metal, it is really, really interesting, it’s got really lotsof strange metallic properties, but one of the most important to me is that it is transparentto x-rays. So I can shine x-rays straight through the beryllium and the beryllium doesnot absorb it at all which most other metals especially those with higher molecular...
