Word: beryllium
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...Hotels, Greyhound Corp., Bonwit Teller and Atlantic Refining. Last week, after 16 months of restless ease, Odlum proved the smart money right, swung back into action as chairman of Salt Lake City's Federal Resources Corp. Federal's assets are a paltry (for Odlum) $6.6 million in beryllium, uranium and silver mines. But Odlum argues that "although the future of this company is over the horizon, the horizon is not too far away...
...Several stars or star clusters showing inexplicably wide deviations in their chemical composition. In some cases, they varied vastly in the amount of lithium and beryllium they contained, and one star (3 Centauri A) contained 100 times more phosphorus than the sun. The discovery poses the still unanswered question: Why do stars have such different contents if, as is generally supposed, they were all formed by similar processes...
...propellant was painstakingly perfected as the chemistry of high-energy fuels was tested at half a dozen laboratories. At one point, Raborn's talent scouts had to track down an expatriate German, descendant of a long line of armor makers, who could work the heat-resistant beryllium parts for the missile's control vanes. They found him in Ohio, in a backyard auto garage...
Kohman rejects both these theories. He analyzed tektites and found that they contain considerable amounts of radioactive isotopes (beryllium 10 and aluminum 26) that are formed by cosmic rays in space. This rules out the moon, he says. If tektites were splashed out of lunar meteor craters, they would have to come from at least a small distance below the moon's surface, where they would be sheltered from rays...
...size and frontal area. Ease of ignition is almost a must. The best combinations are "hypergolic," igniting spontaneously as soon as mixed. Bad qualities to be avoided are toxicity, corrosiveness, heat instability (exploding when hot) and a tendency to evaporate like liquid oxygen. No fuel is perfect. Beryllium compounds might be good if beryllium were not so scarce and so poisonous...