How to Use beryllium in a Sentence

beryllium

noun
  • None of the tests of Mapp’s home looked for beryllium.
    — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 July 2025
  • Almost none of the tests checked for beryllium.
    — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 July 2025
  • One side of the drums is coated with beryllium, the other with boron.
    — David Szondy september 10, New Atlas, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The original plan was to use beryllium, but plasma can erode it.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 3 July 2024
  • Turn to the beryllium side and the neutrons are reflected.
    — David Szondy september 10, New Atlas, 10 Sep. 2025
  • That’s due to the presence of silicon and beryllium in the beryl crystal.
    — Daniel Freedman, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Protons from a synchrotron were flung against a target of beryllium atoms.
    — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2020
  • But there’s no research on how well beryllium can be cleaned out of porous surfaces, like couches and carpets.
    — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 July 2025
  • Smith said beryllium fit the bill for NASA for a few reasons.
    — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 15 July 2022
  • The inner vessel wall of the tokamak was upgraded from graphite to beryllium.
    — David Donovan, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2022
  • There are no national or statewide standards for how much beryllium inside a home is safe, nor for how to test for it or remove it.
    — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 July 2025
  • 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
  • Turning the rods with the beryllium side in sustains the fission reaction.
    — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2019
  • That’s because Webb’s mirror is made of beryllium, a strong but lightweight metal.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Lithium, beryllium, and boron originate from cosmic rays that shoot across the universe.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2020
  • To catch kaons in the act, the experiment sprays a hose of protons at an unmoving target of beryllium atoms.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Webb’s main mirror is made of beryllium, a lightweight yet sturdy and cold-resistant metal.
    — Marcia Dunn, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Powdered beryllium was pressed into blocks in Ohio, then cut to shape in Alabama.
    — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • Many of these homes were coated in wildfire debris laden with toxic chemicals like lead, asbestos and beryllium.
    — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Since the Palisades and Eaton fires, though, researchers have been finding beryllium in homes, in the water and in the air.
    — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 July 2025
  • Keeping that heat in place is a reflector made of beryllium, completely surrounding the core.
    — Amy Shira Teitel, Discover Magazine, 28 Mar. 2019
  • Ukraine’s other deposits of beryllium and uranium could be used for nuclear power and weapons.
    — Laura Kelly, The Hill, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Around this core is wrapped a layer of beryllium, which reflects the neutrons emitted by the core to cause the nuclear reaction.
    — David Szondy september 10, New Atlas, 10 Sep. 2025
  • From then on, samples in nearly every home began coming back positive for beryllium.
    — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 July 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Engineers built that mirror out of beryllium, a relatively rare metal that’s lighter than aluminum but stronger than steel.
    — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 25 Dec. 2021

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