how to pronounce beryllium

/bəˈɹɪl.i.əm/

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beryllium is pronounced in four syllables

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bəɹɪliəm

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An example use of beryllium in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… hemispherical beryllium reflector …”

meanings of beryllium

noun:

  1. An atom of this element.
  2. The chemical element (symbol Be) with an atomic number of 4; a soft silvery-white low density alkaline earth metal with specialist industrial applications.

beryllium frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word beryllium occurs in english on average 0.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics beryllium can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that beryllium can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;

words that rhyme with beryllium

ilium

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