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In article <hwbp3dc@dixie.com>, jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:
|>5916rahmank@vms.csd.mu.edu (K. M. A. Rahman) writes:
|>
|>>	Be is used in nuclear reactors, I think in shut down process.
|>
|>Nope.  That's cadmium or boron.  Be is sometimes used in 
|>sources mixed with Am-241 (called "AmBes" )as a source of neutrons
|>during reactor startup.  AmBes, sometimes with Pu replacing the Am,
|>are also used in the lab as sources of neutrons.
|>
|>>	I also heard that it's highly toxic. 
|>
|>Some compounds are.
|>
|>>What are the spectacular properties?
|>
|>Very light weight, very strong, transparent to X-rays down to very low
|>energies, good neutron moderator, excellent heat conductor, as an oxide, 
|>a very good electrical insulator while being a very good thermal 
|>conductor.  Be is the lightest metal with any structural use.
|>
|>John
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	Thanks for enlightening.
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	-Anis