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Borate ions occur, alone or with other anions, in many borate and borosilicate minerals such as borax, boracite, ulexite (boronatrocalcite) and colemanite. Borates also occur in seawater, where they make an important contribution to the absorption of low frequency sound in seawater. [1] Borates also occur in plants, including almost all fruits. [2]
The Borate Minerals are minerals which contain a borate anion group. The borate (BO 3 ) units may be polymerised similar to the SiO 4 unit of the silicate mineral class. This results in B 2 O 5 , B 3 O 6 , B 2 O 4 anions as well as more complex structures which include hydroxide or halogen anions. [ 2 ]
The [BAr F 4] − anion with four fluorinated aryl groups distributed tetrahedrally about a central boron atom. Tetrakis[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]borate is an anion with chemical formula [{3,5-(CF 3) 2 C 6 H 3} 4 B] −, which is commonly abbreviated as [BAr F 4] −, indicating the presence of fluorinated aryl (Ar F) groups.
It is a weak acid that yields various borate anions and salts, and can react with alcohols to form borate esters. Boric acid is often used as an antiseptic , insecticide , flame retardant , neutron absorber , or precursor to other boron compounds.
A metaborate is a borate anion consisting of boron and oxygen, with empirical formula BO − 2.Metaborate also refers to any salt or ester of such anion (e.g. salts such as sodium metaborate NaBO 2 or calcium metaborate Ca(BO 2) 2, and esters such as methyl metaborate CH 3 BO 2).
The hydrated tetraborate anion occurs in the mineral borax (sodium tetraborate octahydrate) with the formula Na 2 [B 4 O 5 (OH) 4]·8H 2 O. The borax chemical formula is also commonly written in a more compact notation as Na 2 B 4 O 7 ·10H 2 O. Sodium borate can be obtained in high purity and so can be used to make a standard solution in ...
In inorganic chemistry, an orthoborate is a polyatomic anion with formula [BO 3] 3− or a salt containing the anion; such as trisodium orthoborate (Na +) 3 [BO 3] 3−.It is one of several boron oxyanions, or borates.
The structure of the tetrafluoroborate anion, BF − 4. Tetrafluoroborate is the anion BF − 4. This tetrahedral species is isoelectronic with tetrafluoroberyllate (BeF 2− 4), tetrafluoromethane (CF 4), and tetrafluoroammonium (NF + 4) and is valence isoelectronic with many stable and important species including the perchlorate anion, ClO −