Boron Synonyms

bôrŏn
A trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. b
  2. atomic number 5

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Boron Sentence Examples

  • Conspicuous examples are afforded by oxygen, carbon, boron, silicon, phosphorus, mercuric oxide and iodide.

  • Thenard in 1808 by heating boron trioxide with potassium, in an iron tube.

  • After the vigorous reaction has ceased and all the sodium has been used up, the mass is thrown into dilute hydrochloric acid, when the soluble sodium salts go into solution, and the insoluble boron remains as a brown powder, which may by filtered off and dried.

  • This mixture burns with a green flame forming boron trioxide; whilst boron is deposited on passing the gas mixture through a hot tube, or on depressing a cold surface in the gas flame.

  • In 1927 a very large deposit of relatively pure Borax was discovered at what is now Boron, CA, in the Mojave Desert.

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