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In their paper published in the journal Science, Josef Boronski, Agamemnon Crumpton, Lewis Wales and Simon Aldridge, describe their process and how they managed to do it in a safe way—and at room temperature. Jason Dutton with La Trobe University, has published a Perspective piece in the same journal issue, outlining the work done by the team in England. Beryllium is a strong but lightweight, alkaline earth metal. It is also brittle.Beryllium only ever occurs naturally when mixed with other elements, forming minerals. It is often found in gemstones such as emeralds. And it is used in a variety of applications, from telecommunications equipment to computers and cell phones. It is also mixed with other metals to create alloys used in applications such as gyroscopes and electrical contacts. For many years, scientists have thought that the element could be even more useful if a way could be found to force beryllium atoms to bond with one another. But until now, it was not possible.

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headshot icons with the elements 1-9 from this

In order: Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine

Round 3 - Matchup 5

Mercury 80 (Hg) - The one, the only, (well not quite but close enough) liquid metal that doesn't burn you. It'll just fuck you up in a bunch of other ways.

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Beryllium 4 (Be) - A key component of some gemstones like aquamarine and emerald. Useful for aerospace.

Are you feeling CERULEAN or are you LIVID?

Welcome to Cool Colours (with a Classics flavour) entry III. You have probably already guessed that these words come from ancient words denoting colours, in this case shades of blue.

Cerulean denotes a sky-blue. However, its ancient parent word could refer to a sky-blue, or a shade darker, even a blue-green. It comes from the lovely Latin adjective caeruleus, which may be connected to the Latin word for heaven or sky, caelum. A beautiful reference that uses the word in ancient literature can be found in Virgil's stunning poem about farming, The Georgics. Virgil describes one of the zones of the sky as 'rigid with blue ice (caerulea glacie)'.

Lividus, the parent word of 'livid' also denotes a shade of blue, but a much darker blue-black. One can see how it has come to become a virtual synonym for 'angry'. The original Latin adjective also carries negative connotations, but of being spiteful and malicious.

Now I have not a coronet in tonight's final hue (sorry, mad Sherlock Holmes fan), but it is a word I am fond of, namely Beryl, a pale green or blue, deriving via Latin beryllus from Greek βήρυλλος (beryllos). In a tragi-comic elegy, poet Propertius imagines the ghost of lover Cynthia visiting him, still wearing her beryl ring. Any keen chemists reading this will spot the connection to the element beryllium.

Despite the many Greek and Latin words that adorn our sweet language of English, English is actually a Germanic language. The word 'blue' finds its origins in blau.

So if you are blue with cold, you are feeling cerulean or feeling cross, you are LIVID.

More on cool colours and Classics soon.

Happy New Year's Eve.

Hoshino... Beryl (?)

A crossover between Oshi No Ko's Hoshino Ai and Beryllium! I tried mimicking the colouring style of Oshi No Ko anime.

The many reels of Oshi No Ko crossovers made me want to draw this >v< I chose Beryllium because she's sweet and smart, but will habitually lie to please others. Beneath her obedient appearance, she longs to escape and rebel against the mundane everyday life, in search for adventures. I think she'd adore Ai, as Beryllium loves everything shiny and delicate - jewels, candy and more.

The candy in the background is from Beryllium salt's sweet taste.

From the element's toxicity and brittleness, she's easily upset and overwhelmed with negative thoughts - so she lies to avoid being hurt in interpersonal conflicts.

Her longing for adventures & paper plane - aerospace application of beryllium-aluminium alloys

Round 2 - Alkaline Earth Metals

Doodles, also some non-ptoc guys are there too

Cu 98, Be 2 (wt%), quenched and aged - annealing twins

Processing Solution treated, quenched and aged [...] Technique Reflected light microscopy Length bar 400 μm / 80 µm Further information This sample was solution treated, quenched and aged. Recrystallisation occurs during ageing creating annealing twins. Contributor Prof T W Clyne Organisation Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge

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Hmm! Fun facts or trivia about your current fixation?😺

OURGH how to choose.... theres so many..... and i dont learn trivia for most things either.....

ooh! ok ok hold on. so this is a fun fact to me that saved me so hard when dirting my ocean monument in minecraft. I used two ways to do it: the moss way and the gravel way

Moss is useful for converting stone to moss, which can then be converted to podzol if you grow a large spruce tree on it. the podzol can then be turned to path blocks, which can then be either dug up or hoed to be turned back into dirt.

The gravel way was better for me though because i had a lot of extra gravel from terraforming around the monument. You can make 4 coarse dirt with 2 regular dirt and 2 gravel, which is basically free dirt since you can hoe the coarse dirt back to regular dirt. It's LITERALLY free dirt. So i would put gravel in a few stacks of dirt at a time, get double the dirt, and lay it all down and till it so it was normal again and grass could grow on it.

Yeah thats my fun fact for minecraft :]

Beryllium/Bellussexual

Bellussexual- has interest in sexual actions, but feels no sexual attraction and does not want a sexual relationship.

Beryllium has a distinctive sweet taste. The scientist who discovered this also found that beryllium is highly toxic and carcinogenic. This is why you don’t eat unknown compounds.

Round 1.1: Uranium (92) vs. Beryllium (4)

Uranium (92)

Uranium is a well-known radioactive metal, with the highest atomic number of the primordial (natural) elements. Most well known for it's atomic properties and uses in nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants, Uranium has had many other uses as a dense metal in warfare, glass, dishware, and in radiometric dating. For a radioactive metal it has a long half-life. Versatile, famous, and a powerful element, it may be a powerful lover in bed too?

Beryllium (4)

A lightweight and brittle metal, Beryllium is commonly used for it's light and x-ray transparent qualities. Named for the mineral beryl, it's most common source, beryllium is commonly used in spacecraft, conductors, speakers, and as dust shields on radioactive chambers.

whats up with these elements and why do they have emotions

Round 2 - Matchup 10

Beryllium 4 (Be) - A key component of some gemstones like aquamarine and emerald. Useful for aerospace.

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Lutetium 71 (Lu) - Lutetium can be used to determine the age of meteorites

ALKALINE EARTH METALS: SEMIFINALS

BERYLLIUM:

Has a light weight, high durability, high melting point, great thermal stability, great conductivity, and can't be seen in x-rays.

The above properties make it a very useful material in many different industries.

STRONTIUM:

Used in cancer treatment

Used in toothpaste

The most accurate atomic clock (to one second in the 200 million years) uses strontium atoms