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Beryllium has a high electronegativity compared to other group 2 elements; thus C-Be bonds are less highly polarized than other C-M II bonds, [47] although the attached carbon still bears a negative dipole moment. [citation needed] A beryllium atom has the electronic configuration [He] 2s 2.
Beryllium-8 (8 Be, Be-8) is a radionuclide with 4 neutrons and 4 protons. It is an unbound resonance and nominally an isotope of beryllium . It decays into two alpha particles with a half-life on the order of 8.19 × 10 −17 seconds.
Beryllium alloys are used for mechanical parts when stiffness, light weight, and dimensional stability are required over a wide temperature range. [69] [70] Beryllium-9 is used in small-scale neutron sources that use the reaction 9 Be + 4 He (α) → 12 C + 1 n, the reaction used by James Chadwick when he discovered the neutron.
It contains beryllium and fluorine. This fluoroanion has a tetrahedral shape, with the four fluorine atoms surrounding a central beryllium atom. It has the same size, charge, and outer electron structure as sulfate S O 2− 4. Therefore, many compounds that contain sulfate have equivalents with tetrafluoroberyllate.
Under some definitions, the value of the radius may depend on the atom's state and context. [1] Atomic radii vary in a predictable and explicable manner across the periodic table. For instance, the radii generally decrease rightward along each period (row) of the table, from the alkali metals to the noble gases; and increase down each group ...
Beryllium is unique as being the only monoisotopic element with both an even number of protons and an odd number of neutrons. There are 25 other monoisotopic elements but all have odd atomic numbers, and even numbers of neutrons. Of the 10 radioisotopes of beryllium, the most stable are 10 Be with a half-life of 1.387(12) million years [nb 1 ...
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Structure of beryllium fluoride (BeF 2), a compound with a linear geometry at the beryllium atom. The linear molecular geometry describes the geometry around a central atom bonded to two other atoms (or ligands) placed at a bond angle of 180°.