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Bonding
The joining together of atoms to form molecules of crystalline salts.

Bone black, animal charcoal
A residue that is left after the destructive distillation of bones. It is used in sugar manufacture as a decolourising agent.

Boron oxide (B2O3)
A glassy hygroscopic solid that eventually forms boric acid. It
Forms various salts but also exhibits some Amphoteric properties

Bone china
Ceramic tableware of high quality in which a small percentage of bone ash gets incorporated. boracite, Mg7B16O30CI2, an important boron mineral.

Boral
A composite material consisting of boron carbide crystals in aluminium, with a cladding of commercially pure aluminium.

Borane (boron hydride)
The term used for any of a group of compounds of boron and hydrogen, many of which can be obtained by the action of acid on magnesium boride (MgB2).

Borax
It is sodium tetraborate decahydrate. Na2B4O710H2O. It is found in nature as tincal (contains about 50% borax) in dried up lakes in Tibet, India, Ceylon and California. It is used in laboratory for Borax bead test

Boron hydrides
They are collectively known as boranes. Their general formula is BnHn+4+ and BnHm+6. They catch fire spontaneously in air. They react with ammonia to form different compounds depending upon the condition.

Bordeaux mixture
A mixture of cupric sulphate, CuSO4, calcium oxide, CaO and water, it is used as fungicide.

Boric acid, H3BO3
White crystalline powder. It is a weak acid used in the manufacture of enamels, glazes for pottery. Its weak solution is used as an ey wash under the trade name ‘boric lotion’. It is mild antiseptic.

Boride
A compound of boron, especially one with a more electropositive element.

Bornite
An important ore of copper which is composed of a mixed copper-iron sulphide Cu5FeS4.

Boron
A hard rather brittle metalloid element of group II of the periodic table. It is having the electronic structure 22s2P1. Boron is of low abundance (0.0003%) but the natural minerals occur in very concentrated form as borax (Na2B4O7,10H2O)
And colemanite (Ca2C6O11).

Boron carbide (B4C)
A very hard black crystalline compound, m.p. 24500C. It is used in nuclear as moderator and as an abrasive.

Boron chemistry
The chemistry of boron is entirely that of covalent B-X bonds except for some complexed cationic species. Boron is commonly in the +3 oxidation state, 3- or 4- coordinate. B-B bonds are readily formed and boron clusters (e.g., B12 in the element, born hydrides) are well established BX3 derivatives are strong lewis acids. Organoborances and boron hybrides are important synthetic reagents.
Boron nitride
Refers to a compound formed by heating boron in nitrogen (10000C). It has two crystalline forms.

 

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