Boron Definition

bôrŏn
noun
A nonmetallic chemical element occurring only in combination, as with sodium and oxygen in borax, and produced in the form of either a brown amorphous powder or very hard, brilliant crystals: its compounds are used in the preparation of boric acid, water softeners, soaps, enamels, glass, pottery, etc.: symbol, B; at. no. 5
Webster's New World

(physics) A stable isotope, 115B, having five protons and six neutrons, that makes up about 80% of natural boron.

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Synonyms:
  • atomic number 5
  • b

Other Word Forms of Boron

Noun

Singular:
boron
Plural:
borons

Origin of Boron

  • From stem of borax + -on (“ending used to form names of substances”)

    From Wiktionary

  • bor(ax) (carb)on

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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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Words Starting With

BBOBOR

Words Ending With

NONRON

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Words Starting With B and Ending With N

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5 Letter Words5 Letter Words Starting With B5 Letter Words Ending With N