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The structure and phase composition of annealed and irradiated beryllium plates were studied by X-ray analysis. Durable X-ray irradiation leads to phase transition of a normal hexagonal beryllium lattice into a beryllium superlattice. This superlattice is composed of beryllium superatoms that form a face-centered cubic lattice with the lattice parameter of 6.2205 ? and a superatom core that crystalizes into a diamond-type lattice with the lattice parameter of 1.5703?. It is shown that beryllium has three phase sta...