boron

English

Chemical element
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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: bo‧ron

Wikipedia

Noun

boron (uncountable)

1. The chemical element (symbol B) with an atomic number of 5; a metalloid
   • 1976, Allen M. Alper, Phase Diagrams: Materials Science and Technology, page 106:

     The B6-type octahedral borons are each bonded to five other boron atoms

Derived terms

terms derived from boron

aluminium boron oxide boron-10 boron-11 boron arsenide boron carbide boron chloride

boron deficiency boron fluoride boron group boron hydride boron iodide boron nitride

boron orthophosphate boron oxide boron phosphide boron tree boron sulfide, boron sulphide

boron tribromide boron trichloride boron trifluoride boron trioxide boron triphosphide ekaboron

Related terms

terms related to boron

bor- borane borate borax Borazon™

boric boride boro- boruret

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: boor (af) Albanian: bor (sq) Arabic: بورون (ar) (bórun) m. Armenian: բոր (hy) (bor) Asturian: boru (ast) Basque: boroa (eu) Belarusian: бор (be) (bor) m. Bengali: বোরন (bn) Bosnian: bor (bs) Breton: bor Bulgarian: бор (bg) (bor) m. Catalan: bor (ca) m. Chuvash: бор Cornish: boron Corsican: boru (co) Croatian: bor (hr) Czech: bor (cs) m., bór (cs) m. Danish: bor (da) Dutch: boor (nl) n., borium (nl) n. Esperanto: boro (eo) Estonian: boor (et) Faroese: bor (fo) Finnish: boori (fi) French: bore (fr) m. Friulian: bôr Galician: boro (gl) Georgian: ბორი (bori) German: Bor (de) n. Greek: βόριο (el) (vório) n. Hawaiian: boron Hebrew: בורון (he), בור (he) (bor) Hindi: बोरॉन (hi) Hungarian: bór (hu) Icelandic: bór (is) n. Ido: borono (io) Indonesian: boron (id) Interlingua: boro Irish: bórón (ga) Italian: boro (it) m. Japanese: ホウ素 (ja) (ほうそ, hōso), 硼素 (ja) Javanese: boron (jv) Kannada: ಬೊರಾನ (kn) Kashubian: bòr Kazakh: бор (bor) Korean: 붕소 (ko) (硼素, bungso) Kurdish: boron (ku) Latin: borium (la)

Latvian: bors (lv) Lithuanian: boras (lt) Lojban: jicmrboro (jbo) Low Saxon: bor (nds) Luxembourgish: Bor (lb) Macedonian: бор (mk) (bor) Malay: boron (ms) Malayalam: ബോറോണ (ml) Maltese: boron (mt) Mandarin: 硼 (cmn) (péng) Manx: boron (gv) Maori: pūtiwha (mi) Marathi: बोरॉन (mr) Mongolian: бор (bor) Nahuatl: xacoiztatl (nah) Norwegian: bor (no) Nynorsk: grunnstoffet bor (nn) Novial: bore Occitan: bòr (oc) Persian: بور (fa) Polish: bor (pl) m. Portuguese: boro (pt) m. Punjabi: ਬਰਾਨ (pa) Quechua: boru (qu) Romanian: bor (ro) n. Russian: бор (ru) (bor) m. Sanskrit: बोरान (sa) Saterland Frisian: bor Scottish Gaelic: bòron Serbian: бор (sr) (bor) Sicilian: boru (scn) Slovak: bór (sk) Slovene: bor (sl) Spanish: boro (es) m. Swahili: boroni (sw) Swedish: bor (sv) n. Tajik: бор (tg) Tamil: போரான (ta), கார்மம் (ta) (kaar-mam) Thai: โบรอน (th) (bōron) Turkish: bor (tr) Ukrainian: бор (uk) Uzbek: bor (uz) Vietnamese: bo (vi) Volapük: borin (vo) Welsh: boron (cy) West Frisian: boar

External links

For etymology and more information refer to: http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/element.php?sym=B (A lot of the translations were taken from that site with permission from the author)

See also

• kernite
• rasorite
• tincal
• ulexite

Anagrams

• broon, Broon

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Esperanto

Noun

boron

1. accusative singular of boro

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Old High German

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *burōnan, whence also Old English borian, Old Norse bora

Verb

borōn

1. to bore