boron

See also: Appendix:Variations of "boron"

English

Chemical element
B
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Next: carbon (C)

English Wikipedia has an article on:

boron

Wikipedia

Etymology

From the stem of borax (boro-) + -on (based on carbon). Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy as a modification of his earlier word boracium.

Pronunciation

• enPR: bôr'ŏn, IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːˌɹɒn/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /bo.rɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹɒn
• Hyphenation: bo‧ron

Noun

boron (usually uncountable, plural borons)

2. The chemical element (symbol B) with an atomic number of 5, which is a metalloid found in its pure form as a dark amorphous powder.
   • 1976, Allen M[yron] Alper, editor, Phase Diagrams: Materials Science and Technology (Refractory Materials; 6), New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 106:

     The B₆-type octahedral borons are each bonded to five other boron atoms; four are part of the same octahedron, and one is external to this octahedron.

   • 2018 November 20, Wayne Drash, “Consumer group warns of ‘dangerous’ slime products and other hazardous toys”, in CNN‎:

     PIRG noted the European Union has a limit of 300 ppm for boron and that there should be a “full-fledged investigation to determine if limits should be established” in the US.

3. A single atom of this element.
   • 2001 August 10, J. Akimitsu, K. Takenawa, K. Suzuki, H. Harima, Y. Kuramoto, “High-Temperature Ferromagnetism in CaB₂C₂”, in Science‎, volume 293, number 5532, →DOI, pages 1125–1127:

     For each X point, four borons in the same plane composing a B₆ cluster provide these orbitals.

Derived terms

• aluminium boron oxide
• borole
• boron-10
• boron-11
• boron arsenide
• boronation
• boron carbide
• boron chloride
• boron deficiency
• boron fluoride
• boron group
• boron hydride
• boronic
• boronic acid
• boron iodide
• boronlike
• boron nitride
• boronolectin
• boron orthophosphate
• boron oxide
• boron phosphate
• boron phosphide
• boron sulfide, boron sulphide
• boron tree
• boron tribromide
• boron trichloride
• boron trifluoride
• boron triiodide
• boron trioxide
• boron triphosphide
• borophene
• boryl
• diboron
• eka-boron
• ekaboron
• ferroboron
• nonboron
• organoboron
• radioboron
• tetraboron
• triethylboron

Related terms

• bor-
• borane
• borate
• borax
• Borazon
• boric
• boride
• boro-
• boruret

Translations

chemical element

Afrikaans: boor (af) Albanian: bor (sq) m Arabic: بُورُون m (būrūn), بُور m (būr) Armenian: բոր (hy) (bor) Asturian: boru (ast) Basque: boroa Belarusian: бор m (bor) Bengali: বোরন (bn) (bōron) Breton: bor Bulgarian: бор (bg) m (bor) Burmese: ဘိုရွန် (bhuirwan) Catalan: bor (ca) m Chinese: Cantonese: 硼 (pang4) Eastern Min: 硼 (bèng) Hakka: 硼 (phìn) Hokkien: 硼 (phêng) Mandarin: 硼 (zh) (péng) Chuvash: бор (bor) Cornish: boron Corsican: boru (co) 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 n 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 m, בּוֹר (he) m (bor) Hindi: टांकण (ṭāṅkaṇ) 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 m Kazakh: бор (kk) (bor) Khmer: បរ (km) (bɑɑ) Korean: 붕소(硼素) (ko) (bungso) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: boron (ku) Kyrgyz: бор (ky) (bor) Latin: borium (la) Latvian: bors m Lingala: bolo Lithuanian: boras (lt) Low German: bor Luxembourgish: Bor Macedonian: бор (mk) (bor) Malay: boron (ms) Malayalam: ബോറോൺ (bōṟōṇ) Maltese: boron Manx: boron Maori: pūtiwha Marathi: बोरॉन (borŏn) Mongolian: бор (mn) (bor) Nahuatl: xacoiztatl Norwegian: Bokmål: bor (no) n Nynorsk: bor (nn) n Occitan: bòr m Ottoman Turkish: بور (bor) 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 (borāna) Saterland Frisian: bor Scottish Gaelic: bòron Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: бор m Roman: bor (sh) m Sicilian: boru (scn) Slovak: bór (sk) Slovene: bor (sl) Spanish: boro (es) m Swahili: boroni Swedish: bor (sv) n Tagalog: boro Tajik: бор (tg) (bor) Tamil: போரான் (ta) (pōrāṉ), கார்மம் (kārmam) Thai: โบรอน (th) (boo-rɔ̂n) Tibetan: ཚ་ལ་ནག་པོ (tsha la nag po), ཚ་ནག (tsha nag) (abbr. of ཚ་ལ་ནག་པོ) Turkish: bor (tr) Turkmen: bor Ukrainian: бор (uk) (bor) Uyghur: بور (bor) Uzbek: bor (uz) Vietnamese: bo (vi) Volapük: borin (vo) Welsh: boron (cy) West Frisian: boar (fy) Yiddish: באָר m (bor) Zazaki: bor (diq)

single atom

Bulgarian: бор (bg) m (bor) Finnish: booriatomi Korean: 붕소원자(硼素原子) (bungsowonja)

See also

• kernite
• rasorite
• tincal
• ulexite

References

• Boron on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

Anagrams

• Borno, Broon, broon

Cornish

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English boron.

Noun

boron m

1. boron

Mutation

Mutation of boron

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
boron	voron	unchanged	poron	foron	voron

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Esperanto

Noun

boron

1. accusative singular of boro

Hungarian

Etymology

bor +‎ -on

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈboron]
• Hyphenation: bo‧ron

Noun

boron

1. superessive singular of bor

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

boron

Wikipedia ^id

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

Alternative forms

• B (initialism)

Etymology

Internationalism.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈboron/ [ˈbo.rɔn]
• Rhymes: -oron
• Syllabification: bo‧ron

Noun

boron (plural boron-boron)

2. (chemistry) boron

Further reading

• “boron”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:

boron

Wikipedia ^ms

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

Etymology

From English boron.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

boron (Jawi spelling بورون, plural boron-boron or boron²)

1. boron (chemical element)

Maltese

Chemical element
B
Previous: berillju (Be)
Next: karbonju (C)

Etymology

Borrowed from English boron.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.rɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɔrɔn

Noun

boron m

1. (chemistry) boron

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *borōn, from Proto-Germanic *burōną, whence also Old English borian, Old Norse bora.

Verb

borōn

1. to bore

Conjugation

Conjugation of borōn (weak class 2)

infinitive	borōn
indicative	present	past
1st person singular	borōm, borōn	borōta
2nd person singular	borōs, borōst	borōtōs, borōtōst
3rd person singular	borōt	borōta
1st person plural	borōm, borōmēs	borōtum, borōtumēs
2nd person plural	borōt	borōtut
3rd person plural	borōnt	borōtun
subjunctive	present	past
1st person singular	boro	borōti
2nd person singular	borōs, borōst	borōtīs
3rd person singular	boro	borōti
1st person plural	borōm, borōmēs	borōtīm, borōtīmēs
2nd person plural	borōt	borōtīt
3rd person plural	borōn	borōtīn
imperative	present
singular	boro
plural	borōt
participle	present	past
	borōnti	giborōt

Descendants

• German: bohren

Welsh

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

Welsh Wikipedia has an article on:

boron

Wikipedia ^cy

Etymology

Borrowed from English boron, from borax, from Anglo-Norman boreis, from Medieval Latin baurach (“borax”), from Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq), from Middle Persian bwlk' (bōrag).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔrɔn/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈboːrɔn/, /ˈbɔrɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɔrɔn

Noun

boron m (uncountable)

1. boron

Derived terms

• boron nitrid (“boron nitride”)
• boron nitrid ciwbig (“cubic boron nitride”)
• boron nitrid hecsagonol (“hexagonal boron nitride”)
• boron trifflworid (“boron trifluoride”)
• nanodiwb boron nitrideg (“boron nitride nanotub(ul)e”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of boron

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
boron	foron	moron	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “boron”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies