Elements of Webb: Beryllium Part 2 Ep04
Elements of Webb EP04: Beryllium. Where Does Beryllium Come From?
So Utah is home to many valuable materials – copper, magnesium, uranium, gold and silver. But most of the world’s beryllium is mined here. And engineers chose beryllium for Webb’s mirrors because it is lightweight, it is strong and it is dimensionally stable.
We are actually standing on the beryllium ore seam. Beryllium is in the volcanic ash dust. It was hydrothermally deposited millions of years ago and then coved by volcanic rock. We have to remove the volcanic rock on top of the ore seam and then use a scraper and a bulldozer to extract the ore that we’re standing on top of. 90% of the beryllium that was mined in the world came from this deposit.
Credits
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Producer
- Sophia Roberts (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Writer
- Sophia Roberts (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Editors
- Sophia Roberts (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- Michael McClare (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Videographers
- Sophia Roberts (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
- Michael McClare (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Michael P. Menzel (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Drone pilot
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Production assistant
- Michael P. Menzel (Advocates in Manpower Management, Inc.)
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Animators
- Walt Feimer (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Adriana Manrique Gutierrez (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Bailee DesRocher (USRA)
- Jacquelyn DeMink (USRA)
- Krystofer Kim (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
- Jonathan North (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Technical support
- Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET Systems, Inc.)
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Subject expert
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This page was originally published on Wednesday, December 1, 2021.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:43 PM EDT.
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