boron

English

Chemical element
B	Previous: beryllium (Be)
	Next: carbon (C)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: bo‧ron

Wikipedia

Noun

boron (usually uncountable, plural borons)

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

   • 2001 August 10, J. Akimitsu et al., “High-Temperature Ferromagnetism in CaB2C2”^[1], Science, volume 293, number 5532, DOI:10.1126/science.1061501, pages 1125-1127: 

     For each X point, four borons in the same plane composing a B 6 cluster provide these orbitals.

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
• Albanian: bor (sq)
• Arabic: بورون m (bórun)
• Armenian: բոր (bor)
• Asturian: boru (ast)
• Basque: boroa
• Belarusian: бор m (bor)
• Bengali: বোরন (bōran)
• Breton: bor
• Bulgarian: бор (bg) m (bor)
• Catalan: bor m
• Chuvash: бор (bor)
• Cornish: boron
• Corsican: boru
• 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
• Finnish: boori (fi)
• French: bore (fr) m
• Friulian: bôr
• Galician: boro (gl) m
• Georgian: ბორი (bori)
• German: Bor (de) n
• Greek: βόριο (el) n (vório)
• Hawaiian: boron
• Hebrew: בורון, בור (he) (bor)
• Hindi: टांकण (taankan)
• 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) (ほうそ, hōso)
• Javanese: boron
• Kannada: ಬೊರಾನ (borāna)
• Kashubian: bòr
• Kazakh: бор (bor)
• Korean: 붕소 (ko) (硼素, bungso)
• Kurdish: boron
• Latin: borium (la)
• Latvian: bors m
• Lithuanian: boras (lt)

• Lojban: jicmrboro
• Low German: bor
• Luxembourgish: Bor
• Macedonian: бор (bor)
• Malay: boron
• Malayalam: ബോറോണ (bēāṟēāṇa)
• Maltese: boron
• Mandarin: 硼 (zh) (péng)
• Manx: boron
• Maori: pūtiwha
• Marathi: बोरॉन (bōrŏn)
• Mongolian: бор (bor)
• Nahuatl: xacoiztatl
• Norwegian: bor (no)

  Nynorsk: grunnstoffet bor

• Novial: bore
• Occitan: bòr m
• Persian: بور (fa) (bor)
• Polish: bor (pl) m
• Portuguese: boro (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਬਰਾਨ (barān)
• Quechua: boru
• Romanian: bor (ro) n
• Russian: бор (ru) m (bor)
• Sanskrit: बोरान (bōrāna)
• Saterland Frisian: bor
• Scottish Gaelic: bòron
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бор m

  Roman: bor m

• Sicilian: boru (scn)
• Slovak: bór
• Slovene: bor (sl)
• Spanish: boro (es) m
• Swahili: boroni
• Swedish: bor (sv) n
• Tajik: бор (bor)
• Tamil: போரான (pōrāṉa), கார்மம் (kārmam)
• Thai: โบรอน (bōron)
• Turkish: bor (tr)
• Ukrainian: бор (uk) (bor)
• Uyghur: بور (bor)
• Uzbek: bor (uz)
• Vietnamese: bo (vi)
• Volapük: borin (vo)
• Welsh: boron (cy)
• West Frisian: boar (fy)

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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Malay

Wikipedia ^ms

Chemical element
B	Previous: berilium (Be)
	Next: karbon (C)

Etymology

From English boron.

Alternative forms

• بورون

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔrɔn/
• Rhymes: -rɔn, -ɔn

Noun

boron (Jawi spelling بورون)

1. boron (chemical element)

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Old High German

Etymology

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

Verb

borōn

1. to bore

Descendants

• German: bohren