Beryllium-Copper: How safe?


now more and more hifi accessories like power plug, receptacles has Beryllium-copper in them. just curious how safe are beryllium-copper in our normal household? say receptacles with BE-copper contact, and with constant plugging in/out of the plug, will it be a concern?

just me being paranoid....

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driver73

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Keep in mind that beryllium copper connectors are generally plated with either gold, silver or rhodium (sometimes very heavily plated - as in the case with Furutech).  So, even though beryllium alloy may have a slight risk of being toxic, you would really never get to that "beryllium" metal through the plating, unless you used a grinder or scraper against that metal (which is highly unlikely unless you just wanted to ruin your connector).