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- From: dlmedli@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov (medlin douglas l)
- Newsgroups: sci.materials
- Subject: Re: Uses of Be
- Message-ID: <332@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov>
- Date: 13 Oct 92 02:59:06 GMT
- References: <1992Oct7.222241.148720@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <1992Oct10.130849.1024@dmp.csiro.au>
- Organization: Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA
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- >>In article <1992Oct2.113921.2739@mtroyal.ab.ca>, dhayward@mtroyal.ab.ca writes:
- >>>For years I have been interested in the present and future uses of
- >>>Berrylium....
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- Beryllium is used frequently in applications where one wants to
- avoid large amounts of secondary x-ray flourescence: thus it
- is frequently used as an x-ray window material for x-ray detectors
- and a material for making low background specimen stages for
- analytical electron microscopes. One advantage for x-ray
- windows on SEMs is that Be is strong enough to withstand an atmosphere
- of pressure even when the window is thin enough to
- allow a large amount of x-ray transmission.
-
- Doug Medlin
- dlmedli@snll-arpagw.llnl.gov
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