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4 unusual facts about Boron


Chemical nomenclature

Hydrides of the main group elements (groups 13–17) are given -ane base name, e.g. borane (BH3), oxidane

Double rifle

In the United States, one builder of modern, well-regarded double rifles in a variety of calibers is B. Searcy & Company of Boron, California.

Fifth Element

Boron, the (modern) element with atomic number 5 on the periodic table

Kern City

Boron, California or Kern, California, a census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California


Boromycin

It was initially isolated from the Streptomyces strain Streptomyces antibioticus, and is notable for being the first natural product found to contain the element boron.

E-4 process

The process is infamous for its use of the highly toxic reversal agent Tertiary Butyl-Amine Borane (TBAB) (not to be jumbled with Tetra-n-butylammonium bromide which also has TBAB abbr.) – as of all boron hydrides.

Electron counting

Polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory for cluster compounds, including transition metals and main group elements such as boron including Wade's rules for polyhedral cluster compounds, including transition metals and main group elements and mixtures thereof.

Element 6

Element Six (formerly De Beers Industrial Diamond) - a company specialised in providing superhard material solutions such as synthetic diamond, cubic boron nitride for industrial applications

Harper Lake

The lake is accessible from Harper Lake Road, which runs north off of State Route 58 midway between Boron and Barstow.

J.E. Gordon

He designed the rescue dinghies for most bomber aircraft used in the war, and studied the strength and behaviour of reinforcement fibres made of glass, carbon, boron and other materials.

Jadarite

Jadarite's chemical formula is very close to the formula ("sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide with fluorine") invented for the fictional substance kryptonite in the 2006 film Superman Returns.

Kurnakovite

In addition to the type locality in Kazakhstan, kurakovite has also been reported from the Zhacang-Caka brine lake, Tibet; the Kirka borate deposit, Kiitahya Province, Turkey; the Kramer borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California; Death Valley National Park, Inyo County, California; and the Tincalayu borax deposit, Salar del Hombre Muerto, Salta Province, Argentina.

Magic angle spinning

These caps are made from number of different materials e.g. Kel-F, Vespel, zirconia or boron nitride depending on the application required.

Precapillary sphincter

Medical and physiological text-books such as Guyton, Boron and Fulton etc. were quick to claim the existence of said sphincters and metarterioles all over the body, despite lack of evidence.

Pyrotechnic initiator

Titanium-boron composition is one of the hottest pyrotechnic reactions in common usage.

Rigaku

1976 Rigaku developed the first parallel-beam type X-ray diffractometer for stress analysis, as well as the first X-ray fluorescence spectrometers capable of carbon analysis (1976) and boron analysis (1981).

Soft error

Boron has been used in BPSG, the insulator in the interconnection layers of integrated circuits, particularly in the lowest one.

Walter Boron

Boron joined Yale University as a postdoctoral fellow with Emile L. Boulpaep in 1978.


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