April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
5h 20m
English

The neutrons of beryllium were the first that e’er were “seen,”
It sparkles so in crystal gems bedecked in em’rald green,
Its alloys help coil’d springs to make,
THE FIRST MEMBER OF THE GROUP 2 ALKALINE EARTH METALS
Beryllium is a silvery-white, lustrous metal that heads up the alkaline earth metals in group 2 of the periodic table. This element played a central role in the discovery of the neutron: when English physicist James Chadwick (1891–1974) bombarded ...