Beryllium Quotes

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“The James Webb Space Telescope has a beryllium mirror made from 18 hexagonal shaped segments. The primary mirror is 6.5 meters (21 feet 4 inches) across. Each segment weighs about 46 pounds. They are precisely aligned to act as one large concave mirror.”
― Sybrina Durant, Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented By The Alchemical Wizards - Book 2

“It is to geometry that we owe in some sort the source of this discovery [of beryllium]; it is that [science] that furnished the first idea of it, and we may say that without it the knowledge of this new earth would not have been acquired for a long time, since according to the analysis of the emerald by M. Klaproth and that of the beryl by M. Bindheim one would not have thought it possible to recommence this work without the strong analogies or even almost perfect identity that Citizen Haüy found for the geometrical properties between these two stony fossils.”
― Antoine-François De Fourcroy