Allotropy of Beryllium
- 1 October 1950
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 21 (10) , 1036-1037
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1699437
Abstract
The allotropy of beryllium has been confirmed by employing different alloying properties of allotropic forms of metallic elements. Alloys of beryllium and gold, studied by x‐ray diffraction methods, showed that the limit of solubility of gold in beryllium is between two and three atomic percent, and practically all of it is dissolved in the β‐form. The lattice parameters of the two forms observed here are: a0=2.286A, C0=3.588A, and C0/a0=1.570 for the α‐form, and a0=6.93A, C0=11.35A, and C0/a0=1.638 for the β‐form. The volume of the unit cell of the β‐form is about 29 times that of the α‐form.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- A High Temperature Precision X-Ray Camera: Some Measurements of the Thermal Coefficients of Expansion of BerylliumJournal of Applied Physics, 1949