[JerseyHighlander]

This guy cooked Beryllium on in a pot on his stove and the mixture blew up n his face?

This guy is going to die from throat/nasal/esophagus cancer.

[Texas Fossil]

Beryllium/oxide is commonly used a an insulator for VHF/UHF Ceramic Transmitting tubes. They are perfectly safe as long as you don't crush the ceramic in the tube. The dust if inhaled is a carcinogen, but in a liquid medium or a paste I am not sure it is that dangerous. You probably can absorbed it through your pores in a liquid.

http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/beryllium/index.html

“About 1-15% of all people occupationally-exposed to beryllium in air become sensitive to beryllium and may develop chronic beryllium disease (CBD), an irreversible and sometimes fatal scarring of the lungs “