So you stay out of contact with it. This is the age of automation.
   If you can reduce the weight of a car by 500 pounds what does that
   translated
   into initial energy savings and pollution? Once it is in the engine you
   will not be in contact with it. There are beryllium springs already in
   the Mazda rotary engine.

   Paul Lamar

   Yes Paul,
   I am with you on this. I think the BE/AL rotor is a GOOD idea. The
   machining of the material would be the only time that was worrysome at
   all. I need to re-read the alloy information. The beryllium was the
   minor component of the alloy. Once alloyed the parts may pose no hazard
   at all. Kind of like salt, a compound made from 2 poisons, that becomes
   beneficial or even necessary for life!  Be assured I am not fighting the
   idea.
   Bill Jepson


   Be is 62%

   Paul Lamar

Thanks Paul,
I was mistaken because of the way the name was written on the chart. Al
BER MET.
I was under the mistaken impression that "they" always put the component
with the largest % first in the name. That obviously isn't correct.
Perhaps that is because it's a Brush-Wellman product and they can call
it anything they want :-)
Bill Jepson

I'll bet one can get it from other sources around the world :)

Paul Lamar