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Beryllium,  ₄Be

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General properties
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Appearance	white-gray metallic
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Beryllium in the periodic table
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Atomic number (Z)	4
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Period	period 2
Block	s-block
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Electron configuration	[He] 2s2
Electrons per shell	2, 2
Physical properties
Phase at STP	solid
Melting point	1560 K ​(1287 °C, ​2349 °F)
Boiling point	2742 K ​(2469 °C, ​4476 °F)
Density (near r.t.)	1.85 g/cm3
when liquid (at m.p.)	1.690 g/cm3
Critical point	5205 K,  MPa (extrapolated)
Heat of fusion	12.2 kJ/mol
[[Enthalpy of vaporization|Heat of Template:Engvar]]	292 kJ/mol
Molar heat capacity	16.443 J/(mol·K)
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Atomic properties
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Electronegativity	Pauling scale: 1.57
[[Ionization energy|Template:Engvar energies]]	1st: 899.5 kJ/mol 2nd: 1757.1 kJ/mol 3rd: 14,848.7 kJ/mol (more)
Atomic radius	empirical: 112 pm
Covalent radius	96±3 pm
Van der Waals radius	153 pm
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Other properties
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Speed of sound thin rod	12,890 m/s (at r.t.)
Thermal expansion	11.3 µm/(m·K) (at 25 °C)
Thermal conductivity	200 W/(m·K)
Electrical resistivity	36 nΩ·m (at 20 °C)
Magnetic ordering	diamagnetic
Magnetic susceptibility	−9.0·10−6 cm3/mol
Young's modulus	287 GPa
Shear modulus	132 GPa
Bulk modulus	130 GPa
Poisson ratio	0.032
Mohs hardness	5.5
Vickers hardness	1670 MPa
Brinell hardness	590–1320 MPa
CAS Number	7440-41-7
History
Discovery	Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1798)
First isolation	Friedrich Wöhler & Antoine Bussy (1828)
Main isotopes of beryllium
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• <ref name="CIAAW2016" /> for the source Atomic weights of the elements 2013 (from subtemplates used by {{Infobox element}})