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Glossary Group A vertical column in the periodic table. Fact box. Glossary Image explanation Murray Robertson is the artist behind the images which make up Visual Elements. Appearance The description of the element in its natural form.
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Amorphous boron is used as a rocket fuel igniter and in pyrotechnic flares. It gives the flares a distinctive green colour. The most important compounds of boron are boric or boracic acid, borax sodium borate and boric oxide.
These can be found in eye drops, mild antiseptics, washing powders and tile glazes. Borax used to be used to make bleach and as a food preservative. Boric oxide is also commonly used in the manufacture of borosilicate glass Pyrex.
It makes the glass tough and heat resistant. Fibreglass textiles and insulation are made from borosilcate glass. The isotope boron is good at absorbing neutrons.
This means it can be used to regulate nuclear reactors. It also has a role in instruments used to detect neutrons. Biological role. Boron is essential for the cell walls of plants.
We take in about 2 milligrams of boron each day from our food, and about 60 grams in a lifetime. Some boron compounds are being studied as a possible treatment for brain tumours.
Natural abundance. Boron occurs as an orthoboric acid in some volcanic spring waters, and as borates in the minerals borax and colemanite. Extensive borax deposits are found in Turkey. However, by far the most important source of boron is rasorite. High-purity boron is prepared by reducing boron trichloride or tribromide with hydrogen, on electrically heated filaments. Impure, or amorphous, boron can be prepared by heating the trioxide with magnesium powder.
Help text not available for this section currently. Elements and Periodic Table History. It was used as a flux used by goldsmiths. In fact, neither had produced the pure element which is almost impossible to obtain. A purer type of boron was isolated in by Henri Moissan. Eventually, E. Weintraub in the USA produced totally pure boron by sparking a mixture of boron chloride, BCl 3 vapour, and hydrogen.
The material so obtained boron was found to have very different properties to those previously reported. Atomic data. Glossary Common oxidation states The oxidation state of an atom is a measure of the degree of oxidation of an atom. Oxidation states and isotopes. Glossary Data for this section been provided by the British Geological Survey.
Relative supply risk An integrated supply risk index from 1 very low risk to 10 very high risk. Recycling rate The percentage of a commodity which is recycled.
Substitutability The availability of suitable substitutes for a given commodity. Reserve distribution The percentage of the world reserves located in the country with the largest reserves.
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Supply risk. Relative supply risk 4. Young's modulus A measure of the stiffness of a substance. Shear modulus A measure of how difficult it is to deform a material. Bulk modulus A measure of how difficult it is to compress a substance. Vapour pressure A measure of the propensity of a substance to evaporate. Pressure and temperature data — advanced. Listen to Boron Podcast Transcript :. You're listening to Chemistry in its element brought to you by Chemistry World , the magazine of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
This week we see the true nature of an element wrongly accused of being boring. I'm Meera Senthilingam from the Naked Scientists. If I had to choose a person to represent gold, then I guess it might be an ambitious young stockbroker, a bit flashy, and not great at forming relationships.
For helium - an airy-fairy blonde with a bit of a squeaky voice, but with aspirations to join the nobility. And for boron? Well at first glance, during the working week at any rate, a boring, middle-aged accountant, maybe wearing brown corduroys and a tweed jacket. Let's start with the boring bit. Boron is usually isolated as a brown, amorphous solid.
I don't know anyone who thinks the element boron has anything interesting about it. But its unexpected side starts to emerge when you look at some simple compounds of boron. Consider the nitride, for example - just the 2 elements at numbers 5 and 7 in the periodic table, but able to join forces to provide hard diamond or soft graphite-like structures, very similar to those of the 6 th element, carbon.
Then there is the trifluoride - remember that acids were first classified as substances that could provide protons, but BF 3 is the archetypal Lewis acid, which doesn't have a proton in sight, yet is able to coordinate with lone pairs, allowing it to catalyse an array of reactions. It can achieve this chemistry because boron really does have two sides to it - it is set up to form 3 bonds with adjacent atoms, but even in this state, readily forms an extra bond in order to complete the 2 nd main shell of 8 electrons.
But the real interest, the 'skydiving', starts when we look at the trihydride of boron. We'll return to this later on, as BH 3 has structural subtleties that will really take us into sexy territory.
But at this stage we'll simply see how boron's schizophrenic side can be used to good effect - add BH 3 to an alkene, then throw in some alkaline hydrogen peroxide, and the oxygen first attaches to the boron, and then gets shuttled onto the adjacent carbon, all driven by this balance between 3- and 4-valent boron. This rather complicated reaction mechanistically is very reliable, and has been used for decades now as a simple way of turning alkenes into alcohols.
Building on this idea, lots of clever variants allow one to introduce the alcohol very selectively, including my favourite of the reagent made by reacting borane with cycloocta-1,5-diene; the resulting dialkylborane is incredibly selective at attacking only the least substituted carbon of an alkene, and its often abbreviated schematically to a BH unit hanging down from two arcs, leading to its nickname as the parachute molecule.
So much for skydiving - what about motorbikes. Well this bit is rather like seeing what appears to be a 50cc moped, only to find that it goes from 0-to in 3.
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