RT Book, Section
A1 Sood, Shweta
A1 Kreider, Mary Elizabeth
A2 Grippi, Michael A.
A2 Antin-Ozerkis, Danielle E.
A2 Dela Cruz, Charles S.
A2 Kotloff, Robert M.
A2 Kotton, Camille Nelson
A2 Pack, Allan I.
SR Print(0)
ID 1195009967
T1 Chronic Beryllium Disease and Hard-Metal Lung Diseases
T2 Fishman’s Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders, 6e
YR 2023
FD 2023
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260473988
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1195009967
RD 2024/04/20
AB Beryllium  is  the  lightest  metal  and  has  an  atomic  number  of  4.  Beryllium,  as  an  element,  was  first  discovered  in  1798  by  the  French  chemist  Vauquelin  and  reduced  to  its  metallic  form.  Subsequently,  it  was  named  beryllium  in  1828  by  the  German  metallurgist  Wohler.  Beryllium  became  a  commercial  product  when  it  was  used  as  an  alloy  first  with  aluminum  and  later  with  cooper,  nickel,  and  cobalt  after  World  War  I.  This  commercial  product  was  used  in  communications  (telephones  and  telecommunication)  and  medicine  (x-ray  devices).  The  industry  grew  in  the  1930s  due  to  the  increased  use  of  beryllium–copper  products  during  World  War  II  in  defense  (military  equipment),  nuclear  energy  (nuclear  reactors),  and  household  items  (fluorescent  lamp  industries).