beryllium
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- n a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element
- But beryllium ores are scattered widely over the world and last week the price of the metal was down to about $11.
- Two protons of an alpha particle seemed to cling to the nucleus of a beryllium atom (thereby theoretically transmuting that atom of beryllium into an atom of carbon).
- Just as molybdenum and tungsten were obscure metals until it was found that they alloyed with steel to make a superlatively hard cutting material, so beryllium, discovered in .