boron

See also: Boron, bōrõn, bőrön, boʻron, and Boroń

English

Chemical element
B
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polycrystalline chunks of β-rhombohedral boron

Etymology

From the stem of borax + -on (ending used to form names of substances). 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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• 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.

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^[1], 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

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 phosphate
• boron phosphide
• boron tree
• boron triiodide
• 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) m
• Arabic: بُورُون‎ m (borun)
• Armenian: բոր (hy) (bor)
• Asturian: boru (ast)
• Basque: boroa
• Belarusian: бор m (bor)
• Bengali: বোরন (bōron)
• Breton: bor
• Bulgarian: бор (bg) m (bor)
• Burmese: ဘိုရွန် (bhuirwan)
• Catalan: bor (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 硼 (pang⁴)

  Hakka: 硼 (phìn)

  Mandarin: 硼 (zh) (péng)

  Min Dong: 硼 (bèng)

  Min Nan: 硼 (phêng)

• 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

• Kyrgyz: бор (ky) (bor)
• Latin: borium (la)
• Latvian: bors m
• Lingala: bolo
• Lithuanian: boras (lt)
• Low German: bor
• Luxembourgish: Bor
• Macedonian: бор (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: போரான (pōrāṉa), கார்மம் (kārmam)
• Thai: โบรอน (th) (boo-rɔ̂n)
• Tibetan: ཚ་ནག (tsha nag)
• Turkish: bor (tr)
• Turkmen: bor
• Ukrainian: бор (uk) (bor)
• Uyghur: بور‎ (bor)
• Uzbek: bor (uz) (bor)
• Vietnamese: bo (vi)
• Volapük: borin (vo)
• Welsh: boron (cy)
• West Frisian: boar (fy)
• Yiddish: באָר‎ (bor)
• Zazaki: bor (diq)

single atom

• 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

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

Malay

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

Alternative forms

• بورون‎

Etymology

From English boron.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

boron (Jawi spelling بورون)

1. boron (chemical element)

Maltese

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English boron.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.rɔn/

Noun

boron m

1. (chemistry) boron

Old High German

Etymology

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	borom	borota
2nd person singular	boros	borotos
3rd person singular	borot	borota
1st person plural	borom, boromes	borotum, borotumes
2nd person plural	borot	borotut
3rd person plural	boront	borotun
subjunctive	present	past
1st person singular	boro	boroti
2nd person singular	boros	borotis
3rd person singular	boro	boroti
1st person plural	borom, boromes	borotim, borotimes
2nd person plural	borot	borotit
3rd person plural	boron	borotin
imperative	present
singular	boro
plural	borot
participle	present	past
	boronti	giborot

Descendants

• German: bohren

Welsh

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

Talpiau polygrisialog o foron β-rhombohedrol

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

 

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
boron	foron	moron	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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