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Boron trioxide or diboron trioxide is the oxide of boron with the formula B 2 O 3. It is a colorless transparent solid, almost always glassy (amorphous), which can be crystallized only with great difficulty.
This page provides supplementary chemical data on boron trioxide. Material Safety Data Sheet. MSDS from SIRI; Structure and properties. Structure and properties Index ...
Boron oxide may refer to one of several oxides of boron: Boron trioxide (B 2 O 3, diboron trioxide), the most common form;
Guitar slide made of borosilicate glass. Borosilicate glass is a type of glass with silica and boron trioxide as the main glass-forming constituents. Borosilicate glasses are known for having very low coefficients of thermal expansion (≈3 × 10 −6 K −1 at 20 °C), making them more resistant to thermal shock than any other common glass.
Natural boron consists of approximately 20% boron-10 and 80% boron-11 isotopes. Boron-10 has a high cross-section for absorption of low energy (thermal) neutrons. By increasing boric acid concentration in the reactor coolant, the probability that a neutron will cause fission is reduced.
Unlike silicates, boron minerals never contain boron with coordination number greater than four. A typical motif is exemplified by the tetraborate anions of the common mineral borax , shown at left. The formal negative charge of the tetrahedral borate center is balanced by metal cations in the minerals, such as the sodium (Na + ) in borax . [ 1 ]
Boric is a chemistry term that refers to substances containing boron, such as: boric acid or orthoboric acid, B(OH) 3; metaboric acid, an acid containing boron, HBO 2; tetraboric acid or pyroboric acid, an acid containing boron, H 2 B 4 O 7; boric oxide, specifically boron trioxide B 2 O 3; a boric ester, or organic borate; Boric may also refer to:
[2] [6] [9] [10] Chemically, boric acid is a boron compound, or a compound containing the element boron, and is also known as trihydroxyboron. [11] Boric acid has been used medically since ancient times, but its discovery as a chemical compound was not until the 1600s. [12] [13] [14] Its antiseptic properties were reported around 1875.