boron

Dave Wilton, Thursday, August 20, 2009

Boron, the element with atomic number 5, takes its name from borax, one of the ores in which it is found. The word borax is from the Old French boras, which in turn takes it from Latin and ultimately from the Arabic bauraq.1

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