On a final note Berylliosis manifests itself in both acute and chronic forms and can wait twenty or thirty years to appear. A long slow developping disease like Alzhiemer's which is not proof but grounds for furthur or at minium some research

Why Was Berylium Overlooked?

One of the reasons that I have rewritten this piece is that there appears to have been no research done on this topic since 1997 when I first broached this idea. One factor was that my article was written before I was aware of search engines like yahoo and google so I had to rely totally on my memory and frankly I got many details wrong.

Second, it many be that some heretofore common knowledge has been lost and is only just being rediscovered.

I am speaking of course of the resemblance of Alluminum and Beryllium.

I can't be sure but by using Google Scholar I have found no trace of Berylium and Alzhiemer's except in my previous article Alzhiemer's Acid Rain and Alluminum. As you can see in the title even I forgot to mention Beryllium. Some people still think that I wrote about Alluminum. To this day I love short stories written by Edgar Allen Poe or O Henry.
They always saved the best or revealed the secret at the end of the story. However, as I know to my regret, that is not the case with Scientific articles or even web pages.

Up to this point in the article I have invented nothing, this has been common knowledge or maybe arcane knowledge. Now I would like to speculate on this subject. Let’s just take the example of acid rain. No one seems to know the exact mechanism causing the death of those trees. Well, I assume that if acid rain leaches Aluminum out of the soil it would have the same effect on Beryllium.

Remember they are chemical Gemini. Once Beryllium entered the tree the tree would have the same chance as the industrial workers exposed to Beryllium dust, or to phrase it differently no chance.

Now let’s suppose for an instant that the Beryllium is in the form of Be OH. If the tree sensed the excess presence of this compound would you think that the tree might react as it would to too much Al OH and try to remove it from solution?

How would the tree do that? This again is pure speculation but I assume that it would use the simplest method which would be to introduce carbon dioxide into the solution . Of course this would not work on the Beryllium hydroxide but any Aluminum Hydroxide would particulate out. Over time you would end up with increasing amounts of Aluminum deposited in the tree and a small amount of Beryllium Hydroxide constantly circulating in the tree. Ironically this process might take out of system the Aluminum Hydroxide that the tree needs for everyday reactions.

Now it is time to look at Alzheimer’s disease. Perhaps the same thing occurs. I assume that the culprit is minute quantities of Beryllium Hydroxide that is behind the blood brain barrier. I assume that the brain again reacts as if there were too much Aluminum Hydroxide and again tries to particulate out the excess.

Again you would have large deposits of Aluminum. Perhaps as well the Beryllium would unlike the Aluminum Hydroxide cause damage to the brain. Maybe the Beryllium would cause similar bundles and holes in the brain like it does on the skin in its pure state.

This seems to explain everything from acid rain to Alzheimer’s disease. Wait, I could be wrong about Beryllium Hydroxide,

after all it is only a hunch. It could be another Beryllium compound.

But, I think I have made a case for a little study on the matter. It is true that these are nothing but wild guesses on my part. The argument for beryllium and acid rain would seem to be easy to ascertain.