Nomenclature
CAS number: 506-66-1
CBe
2; mol wt 30.04.
C 39.98%, Be 60.00%.
Be
2C.
Description and references
Prepn: Coobs, Koshuba, J. Electrochem. Soc. 99, 115 (1952); Mallett et al., ibid. 101, 298 (1954); Ehrlich in Handbook of Preparative
Inorganic Chemistry vol. 1, G. Brauer, Ed.
(Academic Press, New York, 2nd ed., 1963) p 899.
Properties
Brick-red or yellow-red octahedra, d 1.90, dec above 2100°. Very slowly
dec by water, somewhat faster by mineral acids and quickly by alkalies
with the evolution of methane.Use
Nuclear reactor core material: Schwartz,
US 3170812 (1965 to USAEC).