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beryllium
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Minor Metals and ApplicationsThe Crucible: January 2015By BeST | Published: November 18, 2014 Beryllium helps the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta mission soft-land its Philae probe on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on November 12th , 2014 – the…
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The humble bicycle, popular since… well that’s quite a disputed date, but from the early 1800s, the ancestors of the modern-day bicycle were certainly in use. One prominent version was the Draisienne….
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Mongolia+ Dear Members, You may remember that, in my last missive, I indicated that I was off to Mongolia with my son (his graduation present). Well, 20,000 miles of international…
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Metals in Nuclear: Part I Dear Members, As I wrote towards the end of last year, with Donald Trump once again in the driving seat, it would be interesting to…
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CrucibleMinor Metals and ApplicationsResourcesThe Crucible: May 2024
View from North America — Beryllium in Space
by Polina Sparks May 31, 2024Dear Members, Before moving on, in my next piece, to such topics as space mining and ion propulsion drives, I thought it would be fun to take a brief…
