Once each year I like to go over the statistics for this blog in detail to see what posts have been the most popular, which search terms are finding this blog, which videos are most watched, etc. I’m not doing this just for an ego trip, but to be able to report the impact this [...]
Posts Tagged ‘beryllium’
Progress Report January 2012
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged beryllium, blog statistics, Chemical Heritage Foundation, history of chemistry, periodic table history, science education, societe de chimie industrielle on January 16, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Beryllium Part 2 Video is Done
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged bertrandite, beryl, beryllia, beryllium, beryllium alloys, beryllium ceramics, beryllium safety, brush engineered materials, brush resources, brush wellman, cbd, chemical engineering, chronic beryllium disease, counter-current decantation, delta utah, elmore ohio, mining, periodic table, refining ore, solvent extraction, spor mountains, topaz mountain, utah mines on June 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The second part of the video on beryllium is now finished. You can watch it here: This video has literally been 2 1/2 years in the making; my students Amy Zirbes and Nathan Jane videotaped our interview with subject expert Phil Sabey, the Manager of Technology and Quality at the Delta mill, in NOvember, 2007. [...]
Beryllium Part 1 Video is Done
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged aquamarine, bertrandite, beryl, beryllia, beryllium, beryllium copper alloy, beryllonite, brush engieneered materials, brush resources, brush wellman, chrysoberyl, euclase, farallon plate, goshenite, hamgergite, heliodor, james webb space telescope, laramide orogeny, morganite, nevadan orogeny, nuclear moderator, nuclear reactor, phenakite, plate tectonics, red beryl, rocky mountains, sevier orogeny, subduction, thermal stability, x-ray window on May 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After weeks of editing and tweaking, I have completed the first half (part 1) of the video on Beryllium. This section is on the uses and sources of beryllium, and the geology of the bertrandite deposit of western Utah. The second half will take another week or so (I have quite a few tight deadlines [...]
Refining Beryllium Ore
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged alkaline earth, bertrandite, beryl, beryllia, beryllium, chemical engineering, counter-current decantation, element, frit, mining, organic solvent, refining, rotary kiln, sulfation on April 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I am continuing this series of posts on the sources, mining, and refining of beryllium ore. I am in the middle of editing the interview my students did in Dec., 2007 of Phil Sabey at the Brush Resources’ Delta Concentration Mill and will have the final videos done by next week. Today I’ve been creating [...]
Mining Beryllium
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged anaconda, bertrandite, beryl, beryllia, beryllium, beryllium alloys, berylometer, brush resources, brush wellman, fluorite, fluorspar, mining, open pit mine, spor mountains, topaz mountain, western Utah on April 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The next videos that will be completed for the Elements Unearthed Project are two episodes on the sources, mining, refining, and uses of beryllium. I’ve written a few posts previously about this topic, and as I continue to organize and prepare materials to use in the videos (which will be edited over the next week), [...]
Recovering from the Conference
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged beryllium, bingham canyon, copper mine, copper refining, copper smelting, hobble creek canyon, juab valley, kennecott, magna, mt nebo, nsta conference, oquirrh, rio tinto, smelter, utah lake, wasatch on March 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been home from the NSTA conference for close to a week now. I’ve spent much of that time recovering and getting myself back on track. My shoulders have been sore all week from packing my laptop around the convention center and also packing around all the materials I got loaded down with at the [...]
A Beryllium Sphere
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged bertrandite, beryl crystals, beryllia, beryllium, brush engineered materials, brush wellman, delta concentration plant, galaxy quest, great basin museum, gyroscope, james webb space telescope, open pit mining, saturn rocket, saturn v on January 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
This will seem to be a sudden diversion after my last post on Periodic Tables, but I am working on several video episodes at the same time and these posts will be jumping between topics depending on where I am with each one. This last Tuesday I had the opportunity to visit my home town [...]
On My Way to Philadelphia
Posted in Weekly Post, tagged beryllium, brush wellman, Chemical Heritage Foundation, hydroelectric, oil refinery, sinclair oil, sustainable energy, wind power, wind turbine on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As mentioned in my last post, I am leaving Mountainland Applied Technology College and will be taking up a Fellowship at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia. I have been selected to be the Societe de Chimie Industrielle (American Section) Fellow for 2008-09 at CHF, where I will be studying the history of atomic [...]
