I am researching the element, boron. The symbol of boron is a just a capital B. The atomic number of boron is 5. Boron’s mass is 10.811 grams. Boron has 5 protons, 6 neutrons, and 5 electrons. The Periodic Table lists elements in numerical order from the smallest atomic number to the largest atomic number. That is why boron is the 5th element on the Periodic Table. It comes after beryllium and before carbon. Boron was discovered on June 30th in 1808. It was discovered by French chemists, Louis-Jaques Thénard and Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac. It was also independently discovered by an English chemist, Sir Humphry Davy. They combined boric acid with potassium to isolate boron. Boron is currently obtained by heating borax with carbon. Some other
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The melting point of boron is 2348 K and its boiling point is 4273 K. The density of boron is 2.37 grams per cubic centimeter. The most common ionic charge of boron is +3. At room temperature, boron is a solid. The color of boron is kind of black-brown. Boron is an extremely hard, jet-black to silver-gray, brittle, lustrous, metal-like element. Boron’s degree of hardness is 9.5-10 using the Mohs scale. The scale cannot be used directly to qualitatively define the actual hardness. I have found that boron does not have a smell. It is also known that the element boron does not have a taste. Boron can be found in arid regions of Turkey, the USA, Argentina, Chile, Russia, China, and Peru. The primary source of boron is the mining of boron-containing minerals such as colemanite, ulexite, tincal, and kernite. Only certain deposits can be mined economically. Boron is not present in nature in elemental form. It is found in a compound. It is found combined with borax, boric acid, kernite, ulexite, colemanite and borates. Highly purified crystalline boron is obtained by vapor phase reduction of the compound boron trichloride with hydrogen on electrically heated filaments in a flow …show more content…
By and large, boron does not react with air at room temperature. At higher temperatures, boron does burn to form boron oxide, B2O3.
4B + 3O2(g) → 2B2O3(s) Most of the boron that is mined today is eventually refined into boric acid or borax. Boric acid is used in a number of applications including insecticides, flame retardants, antiseptics, and to create other compounds. Borax is a powdered material used in detergents, cosmetics, and enamel glazes. Boron is used in the manufacture of glass and ceramics. It produces high end cookware materials used in brands such as Duran and Pyrex. It also helps to make glassware for science labs. In the eighth century A.D., borax was exported from Tibetan lakebeds along the Silk Road for use by Arabic goldsmiths and silversmiths; it was also used to make ceramic glazes in China. The importance of boron in agriculture is well recognized. New plants for which boron is essential are constantly being discovered, and this year it has been established at Rothamsted, a nonprofit organization, that carrots should be added to the
The melting point of boron is 2348 K and its boiling point is 4273 K. The density of boron is 2.37 grams per cubic centimeter. The most common ionic charge of boron is +3. At room temperature, boron is a solid. The color of boron is kind of black-brown. Boron is an extremely hard, jet-black to silver-gray, brittle, lustrous, metal-like element. Boron’s degree of hardness is 9.5-10 using the Mohs scale. The scale cannot be used directly to qualitatively define the actual hardness. I have found that boron does not have a smell. It is also known that the element boron does not have a taste. Boron can be found in arid regions of Turkey, the USA, Argentina, Chile, Russia, China, and Peru. The primary source of boron is the mining of boron-containing minerals such as colemanite, ulexite, tincal, and kernite. Only certain deposits can be mined economically. Boron is not present in nature in elemental form. It is found in a compound. It is found combined with borax, boric acid, kernite, ulexite, colemanite and borates. Highly purified crystalline boron is obtained by vapor phase reduction of the compound boron trichloride with hydrogen on electrically heated filaments in a flow …show more content…
By and large, boron does not react with air at room temperature. At higher temperatures, boron does burn to form boron oxide, B2O3.
4B + 3O2(g) → 2B2O3(s) Most of the boron that is mined today is eventually refined into boric acid or borax. Boric acid is used in a number of applications including insecticides, flame retardants, antiseptics, and to create other compounds. Borax is a powdered material used in detergents, cosmetics, and enamel glazes. Boron is used in the manufacture of glass and ceramics. It produces high end cookware materials used in brands such as Duran and Pyrex. It also helps to make glassware for science labs. In the eighth century A.D., borax was exported from Tibetan lakebeds along the Silk Road for use by Arabic goldsmiths and silversmiths; it was also used to make ceramic glazes in China. The importance of boron in agriculture is well recognized. New plants for which boron is essential are constantly being discovered, and this year it has been established at Rothamsted, a nonprofit organization, that carrots should be added to the