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    Beryllium carbide, or Be2C, is a metal carbide. Similar to diamond, it is a very hard compound. It is used in nuclear reactors as a core material. Beryllium...
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    Three examples are aluminium carbide Al4C3, magnesium carbide Mg2C and beryllium carbide Be2C. Transition metal carbides are not saline: their reaction...
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    BeB2, BeB6 and BeB12. Beryllium carbide, Be2C, is a refractory brick-red compound that reacts with water to give methane. No beryllium silicide has been identified...
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    expansion coefficient. Silicon carbide is a semiconductor, which can be doped n-type by nitrogen or phosphorus and p-type by beryllium, boron, aluminium, or gallium...
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    the antifluorite structure, anions and cations are swapped, such as beryllium carbide (Be2C) or lithium oxide (Li2O), potassium sulfate (K2SO4). Other anti-structures...
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    Beryllium nitride, Be3N2, is a nitride of beryllium. It can be prepared from the elements at high temperature (1100–1500 °C); unlike beryllium azide or...
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    are six chemical elements in group 2 of the periodic table. They are beryllium (Be), magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr), barium (Ba), and radium...
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  • Beryllium borohydride – Be[BH4]2 Beryllium bromide – BeBr2 Beryllium carbonate – BeCO3 Beryllium chloride – BeCl2 Beryllium fluoride – BeF2 Beryllium...
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  • carbide 12011-54-0 CBSi carbon monoboride monosilicide 12628-09-0 CB2 diboron carbide 12537-86-9 CB4 boron carbide 12069-32-8 CBe2 beryllium carbide 506-66-1...
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  • metallic alloys, like β–Al–Mg, ξ'–Al–Pd–Mn, and T–Al3Mn. Lockalloy (62% beryllium, 38% aluminum) Bismanol (manganese); magnetic alloy from the 1950s using...
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  • 12232–25–6 BeTe beryllium telluride 12232–27–8 Be2C beryllium carbide 506–66–1 Be2SiO4 beryllium silicate 13598–00–0 Be3N2 beryllium nitride 1304–54–7...
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  • 12598-16-2 Al3F14Na5 chiolite 1302-84-7 Al4C3 aluminium carbide 1299-86-1 Al6BeO10 beryllium aluminium oxide 12253-74-6 Al6O13Si2 mullite 1302-93-8 ArClF...
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    tungsten carbide, a wear-resistant metal used in metalworking, mining, and construction. About 50% of tungsten is used in tungsten carbide, with the...
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  • similar properties. The second period contains the elements lithium, beryllium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, and neon. In a quantum mechanical...
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    the beryllium and produce neutrons. Beryllium tampers/reflectors came into use in the mid-1950s; the parts were machined from pressed powder beryllium blanks...
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  • than to a specular reflection. The material may be graphite, beryllium, steel, tungsten carbide, gold, or other materials. A neutron reflector can make an...
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  • (TiN), titanium carbonitride (TiCN), titanium carbide (TiC) and similar can be brazed like tungsten carbide if properly prepared, however they require special...
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    centimetres (2.0 in) beryllium neutron reflector, it drops to 36.5 kilograms (80 lb), and with a 10 centimetres (3.9 in) beryllium reflector, it drops...
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  • E-Material (category Beryllium alloys)
    copper-silver alloy instead of beryllium and diamond instead of beryllium oxide, or AlSiC, aluminium with silicon carbide.[permanent dead link] Other materials...
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    away. The core was placed within a stack of neutron-reflective tungsten carbide bricks, and the addition of each brick made the assembly closer to criticality...
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    under consideration include: Tungsten Molybdenum Beryllium Lithium Tin Boron carbide Silicon carbide Carbon fibre composite (CFC) Graphite Multi-layer...
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    acid, the mineral sodium borate, and the ultra-hard crystals of boron carbide and boron nitride. Boron is synthesized entirely by cosmic ray spallation...
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  • stage of a modern thermonuclear weapon may instead use a lightweight beryllium reflector, which is also transparent to X-rays when ionized, allowing...
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    at high temperatures to form metallic carbides, such as the iron carbide cementite in steel and tungsten carbide, widely used as an abrasive and for making...
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  • an artificially grown crystalline variety of chrysoberyl, composed of beryllium aluminum oxide (BeAl2O4). The name is also often used erroneously to describe...
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    conically. Water and beryllium blocks serve as the moderator (70% and 30% of the moderation, respectively). Elements of boron carbide sheathed in aluminum...
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    Armor-piercing bullets typically contain a hardened steel, tungsten, or tungsten carbide penetrator encased within a copper or cupronickel jacket, similar to the...
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    closer to borides than to carbides. Because of size differences however silicides are not isostructural with borides and carbides. Bonds in silicides range...
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    Fluorine-lithium-beryllium ("FLiBe") can be used with beryllium additions to lower the redox potential and nearly eliminate corrosion. However, since beryllium is extremely...
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  • include minerals (such kaolin, talc, mica), beryllium lung disease, hard metal disease and silicon carbide pneumoconiosis. Arsenic is classified as an...
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