[TheForge] berillium check

[Bruce Freeman]

In fact, there probably ARE "spot tests" for beryllium in copper.  In fact, I found one on a brief google search.  However, to properly run such tests you need a chemical laboratory complete with reagent grade chemicals, some of them nasty, and training at least to the "B" grade level in Chem 1.

Nowadays, you'd probably be better off bribing an analyst running ICP or electron microscopic elemental analysis to test the metal for you.  This is quite feasible, actually, and a steel rose would probably pursuade your average female analyst.

Bruce
NJ

>>> phlip at 99main.com 10/25/2005 6:10:45 AM >>>

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Hochewa:
> Warning respectfully observed; I'm a slow learner about that,
> having taken it in the proverbial chops a number of times from
> junk yard exposures.
> I take it by inference that you do know about berillium valve
> discs  .I'll return the bronze to where it came from if that's
> the case. Too bad, it works pretty nicely.
> Thanks for the warning....Pete F

Don't get in a hurry- Hey, BRUCE- you got some sort of test he could run, to
do a qualitative analysis? Something relatively simple, involving relatively
common household reagents?

Saint Phlip,
CoD

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....

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