How to Use beryllium in a Sentence

beryllium

noun

• Turning the rods with the beryllium side in sustains the fission reaction.
  — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2019
• 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

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024