Boron

Boron
5
B
-
Al
beryllium boron carbon
Boron in the periodic table
Appearance
black-brown
Boron, shown here in the form of its
-rhombohedral phase (its most
thermodynamically stable allotrope)
[1]
General properties
Name, symbol,
number
boron, B, 5
Pronunciation /ber!n/
Element category metalloid
Group, period,
block
13, 2, p
Standard atomic
weight
10.81(1)
Electron
configuration
[He] 2s
2
2p
1
2, 3
Physical properties
Phase solid
Liquid density at
m.p.
2.08 gcm
~3
Melting point 2349 K, 2076 C, 3769 F
Boron
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Boron is a chemical element with symbol B
and atomic number 5. Because boron is
produced entirely by cosmic ray spallation
and not by stellar nucleosynthesis,
[9]
it is a
low-abundance element in both the solar
system and the Earth's crust. Boron is
concentrated on Earth by the water-solubility
of its more common naturally occurring
compounds, the borate minerals. These are
mined industrially as evaporites, such as
borax and kernite.
Chemically uncombined boron, which is
classed as a metalloid, is found in small
amounts in meteoroids, but is not found
naturally on Earth. Industrially, very pure
boron is produced with difficulty, as boron
tends to form refractory materials containing
small amounts of carbon or other elements.
Several allotropes of boron exist: amorphous
boron is a brown powder, and crystalline
boron is black, extremely hard (about 9.5 on
the Mohs scale), and a poor conductor at
room temperature. Elemental boron is used
as a dopant in the semiconductor industry.
The major industrial-scale uses of boron
compounds are in sodium perborate
bleaches, and (Owens-Corning) Borosilicate
glass which it trademarked as Pyrex, with
greater strength and breakage resistance
(thermal shock resistance) than ordinary
soda lime glass. Boron polymers and
ceramics play specialized roles as
high-strength lightweight structural and
refractory materials. Boron compounds are
used in silica-based glasses and ceramics to
give them resistance to thermal shock.
Boron-containing reagents are used as
intermediates in the synthesis of organic fine
chemicals. A few boron-containing organic
pharmaceuticals are used, or are in study.
Natural boron is composed of two stable
isotopes, one of which (boron-10) has a
number of uses as a neutron-capturing
agent.
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Boiling point 4200 K, 3927 C, 7101 F
Heat of fusion
50.2 kJmol
~1
Heat of
vaporization
508 kJmol
~1
Molar heat
capacity
11.087 Jmol
~1
K
~1
Vapor pressure
P (Pa) 1 10 100 1 k 10 k 100 k
at T (K) 2348 2562 2822 3141 3545 4072
Atomic properties
Oxidation states
3, 2, 1
[2]
(mildly acidic oxide)
Electronegativity 2.04 (Pauling scale)
Ionization
energies
(more)
1st: 800.6 kJmol
~1
2nd: 2427.1 kJmol
~1
3rd: 3659.7 kJmol
~1
Atomic radius 90 pm
Covalent radius 843 pm
Van der Waals
radius
192 pm
Miscellanea
Crystal structure rhombohedral
Magnetic ordering
diamagnetic
[3]
Electrical
resistivity
(20 C) ~10
6
Cm
Thermal
conductivity
27.4 Wm
~1
K
~1
Thermal
expansion
(25 C) ( form) 57
[4]
mm
~1
K
~1
Speed of sound
(thin rod)
(20 C) 16,200 ms
~1
Mohs hardness ~9.5
CAS registry
number
7440-42-8
History
In biology, borates have low toxicity in
mammals (similar to table salt), but are more
toxic to arthropods and are used as
insecticides. Boric acid is mildly antimicrobial,
and a natural boron-containing organic
antibiotic is known.
[10]
Boron is essential to
life. Small amounts of boron compounds play
a strengthening role in the cell walls of all
plants, making boron necessary in soils.
Experiments indicate a role for boron as an
ultratrace element in animals, but its role in
animal physiology is unknown.
Contents
1 History
2 Characteristics
2.1 Allotropes
2.2 Chemistry of the element
2.2.1 Chemical
compounds
2.2.1.1 Organoboron
chemistry
2.2.1.2 Compounds
of B(I) and B(II)
2.3 Isotopes
2.3.1 Commercial isotope
enrichment
2.3.2 Enriched boron
(boron-10)
2.3.3 Depleted boron
(boron-11)
2.3.3.1 Radiation-
hardened
semiconductors
2.3.3.2 Proton-boron
fusion
2.3.4 NMR spectroscopy
2.4 Occurrence
3 Production
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Discovery Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
and Louis Jacques
Thnard
[5]
(30 June 1808)
First isolation
Humphry Davy
[6]
(9 July 1808)
Most stable isotopes
Main article: Isotopes of boron
iso NA half-life DM DE
(MeV)
DP
10
B
19.9(7)%
10
B is stable with 5
neutrons
[7]
11
B
80.1(7)%
11
B is stable with 6
neutrons
[7]
10
B content may be as low as 19.1% and as
high as 20.3% in natural samples.
11
B is the
remainder in such cases.
[8]
Sassolite
3.1 Market trend
4 Applications
4.1 Glass and ceramics
4.2 Detergent formulations and
bleaching agents
4.3 Insecticides
4.4 Semiconductors
4.5 Magnets
4.6 High-hardness and abrasive
compounds
4.6.1 Boron carbide
4.6.2 Other superhard
boron compounds
4.7 Shielding in nuclear reactors
4.8 Other nonmedical uses
4.9 Pharmaceutical and
biological applications
4.10 Research areas
5 Natural biological role
5.1 Analytical quantification
5.2 Health issues and toxicity
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
History
The word boron was coined from borax, the mineral from which it was isolated, by analogy
with carbon, which it resembles chemically. For the etymology of borax, see that article.
Borax glazes were used in China from AD 300, and some tincal
(crude borax) reached the West, where the Persian alchemist
Jbir ibn Hayyn seems to mention it in AD 700. Marco Polo
brought some glazes back to Italy in the 13th century. Agricola,
around 1600, reports the use of borax as a flux in metallurgy. In
1777, boric acid was recognized in the hot springs (soffioni) near
Florence, Italy, and became known as sal sedativum, with mainly
medical uses. The rare mineral is called sassolite, which is found
at Sasso, Italy. Sasso was the main source of European borax
from 1827 to 1872, at which date American sources replaced
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Boron chunks
it.
[11][12]
Boron compounds were relatively rarely used chemicals until the late 1800s when
Francis Marion Smith's Pacific Coast Borax Company first popularized these compounds
and made them in volume and hence cheap.
[13]
Boron was not recognized as an element until it was isolated by Sir Humphry Davy
[6]
and
by Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thnard.
[5]
In 1808 Davy observed that
electric current sent through a solution of borates produced a brown precipitate on one of
the electrodes. In his subsequent experiments he used potassium to reduce boric acid
instead of electrolysis. He produced enough boron to confirm a new element and named
the element boracium.
[6]
Gay-Lussac and Thnard used iron to reduce boric acid at high
temperatures. They showed by oxidizing boron with air that boric acid is an oxidation
product of boron.
[5][14]
Jns Jakob Berzelius identified boron as an element in 1824.
[15]
Pure boron was arguably first produced by the American chemist Ezekiel Weintraub in
1909.
[16][17][18]
Characteristics
Allotropes
Boron is similar to carbon in its capability to form stable covalently
bonded molecular networks. Even nominally disordered
(amorphous) boron contains regular boron icosahedra which are,
however, bonded randomly to each other without long-range order.
[19][20]
Crystalline boron is a very hard, black material with a high
melting point of above 2000 C. It exists in four major polymorphs: d,
, y and T. Whereas d, and T phases are based on B
12
icosahedra, the y-phase can be described as a rocksalt-type
arrangement of the icosahedra and B
2
atomic pairs.
[21]
It can be
produced by compressing other boron phases to 1220 GPa and
heating to 15001800 C; it remains stable after releasing the
temperature and pressure. The T phase is produced at similar
pressures, but higher temperatures of 18002200 C. As to the d and phases, they
might both coexist at ambient conditions with the phase being more stable.
[21][22][23]
Compressing boron above 160 GPa produces a boron phase with an as yet unknown
structure, and this phase is a superconductor at temperatures 612 K.
[24]
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Boron phase ! " T
Symmetry Rhombohedral Rhombohedral Orthorhombic Tetragonal
Atoms/unit cell
[21]
12 ~105 28
Density (g/cm
3
)
[25][26][27][28]
2.46 2.35 2.52 2.36
Vickers hardness (GPa)
[29][30]
42 45 5058
Bulk modulus (GPa)
[30][31]
185 224 227
Bandgap (eV)
[30][32]
2 1.6 2.1
Chemistry of the element
See also Category:Boron compounds.
Elemental boron is rare and poorly studied because the material is extremely difficult to
prepare. Most studies on "boron" involve samples that contain small amounts of carbon.
Chemically, boron behaves more similarly to silicon than to aluminium. Crystalline boron is
chemically inert and resistant to attack by boiling hydrofluoric or hydrochloric acid. When
finely divided, it is attacked slowly by hot concentrated hydrogen peroxide, hot
concentrated nitric acid, hot sulfuric acid or hot mixture of sulfuric and chromic acids.
[17]
The rate of oxidation of boron depends upon the crystallinity, particle size, purity and
temperature. Boron does not react with air at room temperature, but at higher
temperatures it burns to form boron trioxide:
[33]
4 B + 3 O
2
2 B
2
O
3
Boron undergoes halogenation to give trihalides, for example,
2 B + 3 Br
2
2 BBr
3
The trichloride in practice is usually made from the oxide.
[33]
Chemical compounds
In its most familiar compounds, boron has the formal oxidation state III. These include
oxides, sulfides, nitrides, and halides.
[33]
The trihalides adopt a planar trigonal structure. These compounds are Lewis acids in that
they readily form adducts with electron-pair donors, which are called Lewis bases. For
example, fluoride (F
~
) and boron trifluoride (BF
3
) combined to give the tetrafluoroborate
anion, BF
4
~
. Boron trifluoride is used in the petrochemical industry as a catalyst. The
halides react with water to form boric acid.
[33]
Boron is found in nature on Earth entirely as various oxides of B(III), often associated with
other elements. More than one hundred borate minerals contain boron in oxidation state
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Ball-and-stick model of tetraborate
anion, [B
4
O
5
(OH)
4
]
2~
, as it occurs
in crystalline borax,
Na
2
[B
4
O
5
(OH)
4
]8H
2
O. Boron
atoms are pink, with bridging
oxygens in red, and four hydroxyl
hydrogens in white. Note two
borons are trigonally bonded sp
2
with no formal charge, while the
other two borons are tetrahedrally
bonded sp
3
, each carrying a
formal charge of ~1. The oxidation
state of all borons is III. This
mixture of boron coordination
numbers and formal charges is
characteristic of natural boron
minerals.
Boron (III)
trifluoride
structure,
showing
"empty" boron
p orbital in
pi-type
coordinate
covalent bonds
+3. These minerals resemble
silicates in some respect, although
boron is often found not only in a
tetrahedral coordination with oxygen,
but also in a trigonal planar
configuration. Unlike silicates, the
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 centers is
balanced by metal cations in the
minerals, such as the sodium (Na
+
)
in borax.
[33]
Boranes are chemical compounds of
boron and hydrogen, with the generic formula of B
x
H
y
.
These compounds do not occur in nature. Many of the
boranes readily oxidise on contact with air, some
violently. The parent member BH
3
is called borane, but
it is known only in the gaseous state, and dimerises to
form diborane, B
2
H
6
. The larger boranes all consist of
boron clusters that are polyhedral, some of which exist
as isomers. For example, isomers of B
20
H
26
are based
on the fusion of two 10-atom clusters.
The most important boranes are diborane B
2
H
6
and
two of its pyrolysis products, pentaborane B
5
H
9
and
decaborane B
10
H
14
. A large number of anionic boron
hydrides are known, e.g. [B
12
H
12
]
2~
.
The formal oxidation number in boranes is positive, and is based on the assumption that
hydrogen is counted as ~1 as in active metal hydrides. The mean oxidation number for the
borons is then simply the ratio of hydrogen to boron in the molecule. For example, in
diborane B
2
H
6
, the boron oxidation state is +3, but in decaborane B
10
H
14
, it is
7
/
5
or +1.4.
In these compounds the oxidation state of boron is often not a whole number.
The boron nitrides are notable for the variety of structures that they adopt. They adopt
structures analogous to various allotropes of carbon, including graphite, diamond, and
nanotubes. In the diamond-like structure called cubic boron nitride (tradename Borazon),
boron atoms exist in the tetrahedral structure of carbons atoms in diamond, but one in
every four B-N bonds can be viewed as a coordinate covalent bond, wherein two electrons
are donated by the nitrogen atom which acts as the Lewis base to a bond to the Lewis
acidic boron(III) centre. Cubic boron nitride, among other applications, is used as an
abrasive, as it has a hardness comparable with diamond (the two substances are able to
produce scratches on each other). In the BN compound analogue of graphite, hexagonal
boron nitride (h-BN), the positively-charged boron and negatively-charged nitrogen atoms
in each plane lie adjacent to the oppositely charged atom in the next plane. Consequently
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Ball-and-stick model of
superconductor magnesium
diboride. Boron atoms lie in
hexagonal aromatic graphite-like
layers, with a charge of ~1 on
each boron atom. Magnesium(II)
ions lie between layers
graphite and h-BN have very different properties, although both are lubricants, as these
planes slip past each other easily. However, h-BN is a relatively poor electrical and thermal
conductor in the planar directions.
[34][35]
Organoboron chemistry
A large number of organoboron compounds are known and many are useful in organic
synthesis. Many are produced from hydroboration, which employs diborane, B
2
H
6
, a
simple borane chemical. Organoboron(III) compounds are usually tetrahedral or trigonal
planar, for example, tetraphenylborate, [B(C
6
H
5
)
4
]
-
vs triphenylborane, B(C
6
H
5
)
3
. However,
multiple boron atoms reacting with each other have a tendency to form novel dodecahedral
(12-sided) and icosahedral (20-sided) structures composed completely of boron atoms, or
with varying numbers of carbon heteroatoms.
Organoboron chemicals have been employed in uses as diverse as boron carbide (see
below), a complex very hard ceramic composed of boron-carbon cluster anions and
cations, to carboranes, carbon-boron cluster chemistry compounds that can be
halogenated to form reactive structures including carborane acid, a superacid. As one
example, carboranes form useful molecular moieties that add considerable amounts of
boron to other biochemicals in order to synthesize boron-containing compounds for boron
neutron capture therapy of cancer.
Compounds of B(I) and B(II)
Although these are not found on Earth naturally, boron forms a variety of stable
compounds with formal oxidation state less than three. As for many covalent compounds,
formal oxidation states are often of little meaning in boron hydrides and metal borides. The
halides also form derivatives of B(I) and B(II). BF, isoelectronic with N
2
, is not isolable in
condensed form, but B
2
F
4
and B
4
Cl
4
are well characterized.
[36]
Binary metal-boron compounds, the metal borides,
contain boron in oxidation state less than III. Illustrative
is magnesium diboride (MgB
2
). Each boron atom has a
formal ~1 charge and magnesium is assigned a formal
charge of 2+. In this material, the boron centers are
trigonal planar, with an extra double bond for each
boron, with the boron atoms forming sheets akin to the
carbon in graphite. However, unlike the case with
hexagonal boron nitride which by comparison lacks
electrons in the plane of the covalent atoms, the
delocalized electrons in the plane of magnesium
diboride allow it to conduct electricity similar to
isoelectronic graphite. In addition, in 2001 this material
was found to be a high-temperature superconductor.
[37][38]
Certain other metal borides find specialized
applications as hard materials for cutting tools.
[39]
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From the structural perspective, the most distinctive chemical compounds of boron are the
hydrides. Included in this series are the cluster compounds dodecaborate (B
12
H
12
2-
),
decaborane (B
10
H
14
), and the carboranes such as C
2
B
10
H
12
. Characteristically such
compounds contain boron with coordination numbers greater than four.
[33]
Isotopes
Boron has two naturally occurring and stable isotopes,
11
B (80.1%) and
10
B (19.9%). The
mass difference results in a wide range of
11
B values, which are defined as a fractional
difference between the
11
B and
10
B and traditionally expressed in parts per thousand, in
natural waters ranging from ~16 to +59. There are 13 known isotopes of boron, the
shortest-lived isotope is
7
B which decays through proton emission and alpha decay. It has
a half-life of 3.510
~22
s. Isotopic fractionation of boron is controlled by the exchange
reactions of the boron species B(OH)
3
and [B(OH)
4
]
~
. Boron isotopes are also fractionated
during mineral crystallization, during H
2
O phase changes in hydrothermal systems, and
during hydrothermal alteration of rock. The latter effect results in preferential removal of
the [
10
B(OH)
4
]
~
ion onto clays. It results in solutions enriched in
11
B(OH)
3
and therefore
may be responsible for the large
11
B enrichment in seawater relative to both oceanic crust
and continental crust; this difference may act as an isotopic signature.
[40]
The exotic
17
B
exhibits a nuclear halo, i.e. its radius is appreciably larger than that predicted by the liquid
drop model.
[41]
The
10
B isotope is good at capturing thermal neutrons (see neutron cross section#Typical
cross sections). Natural boron is about 20%
10
B and 80%
11
B. The nuclear industry
enriches natural boron to nearly pure
10
B. The less-valuable by-product, depleted boron,
is nearly pure
11
B.
Commercial isotope enrichment
Because of its high neutron cross-section, boron-10 is often used to control fission in
nuclear reactors as a neutron-capturing substance.
[42]
Several industrial-scale enrichment
processes have been developed, however only the fractionated vacuum distillation of the
dimethyl ether adduct of boron trifluoride (DME-BF
3
) and column chromatography of
borates are being used.
[43][44]
Enriched boron (boron-10)
Enriched boron or
10
B is used in both radiation shielding and is the primary nuclide used
in neutron capture therapy of cancer. In the latter ("boron neutron capture therapy" or
BNCT), a compound containing
10
B is incorporated into a pharmaceutical which is
selectively taken up by a malignant tumor and tissues near it. The patient is then treated
with a beam of low energy neutrons at a relatively low neutron radiation dose. The
neutrons, however, trigger energetic and short-range secondary alpha particle and
lithium-7 heavy ion radiation that are products of the boron + neutron nuclear reaction, and
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Neutron cross section of boron (top curve is for
10
B and bottom curve for
11
B)
this ion radiation additionally bombards
the tumor, especially from inside the
tumor cells.
[45][46][47][48]
In nuclear reactors,
10
B is used for
reactivity control and in emergency
shutdown systems. It can serve either
function in the form of borosilicate control
rods or as boric acid. In pressurized
water reactors, boric acid is added to the
reactor coolant when the plant is shut
down for refueling. It is then slowly
filtered out over many months as fissile
material is used up and the fuel becomes
less reactive.
[49]
In future manned interplanetary spacecraft,
10
B has a theoretical role as structural material
(as boron fibers or BN nanotube material) which would also serve a special role in the
radiation shield. One of the difficulties in dealing with cosmic rays, which are mostly high
energy protons, is that some secondary radiation from interaction of cosmic rays and
spacecraft materials is high energy spallation neutrons. Such neutrons can be moderated
by materials high in light elements such as polyethylene, but the moderated neutrons
continue to be a radiation hazard unless actively absorbed in the shielding. Among light
elements that absorb thermal neutrons,
6
Li and
10
B appear as potential spacecraft
structural materials which serve both for mechanical reinforcement and radiation
protection.
[50]
Depleted boron (boron-11)
Radiation-hardened semiconductors
Cosmic radiation will produce secondary neutrons if it hits spacecraft structures. Those
neutrons will be captured in
10
B, if it is present in the spacecraft's semiconductors,
producing a gamma ray, an alpha particle, and a lithium ion. These resultant decay
products may then irradiate nearby semiconductor "chip" structures, causing data loss (bit
flipping, or single event upset). In radiation-hardened semiconductor designs, one
countermeasure is to use depleted boron, which is greatly enriched in
11
B and contains
almost no
10
B. It is useful because
11
B is largely immune to radiation damage. Depleted
boron is a byproduct of the nuclear industry.
[49]
Proton-boron fusion
11
B is also a candidate as a fuel for aneutronic fusion. When struck by a proton with
energy of about 500 keV, it produces three alpha particles and 8.7 MeV of energy. Most
other fusion reactions involving hydrogen and helium produce penetrating neutron
radiation, which weakens reactor structures and induces long term radioactivity thereby
endangering operating personnel. Whereas, the alpha particles from
11
B fusion can be
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A fragment of ulexite
Borax crystals
turned directly into electric power, and all radiation stops as soon as the reactor is turned
off.
[51]
NMR spectroscopy
Both
10
B and
11
B possess nuclear spin. The nuclear spin of
10
B is 3 and that of
11
B is 3/2.
These isotopes are, therefore, of use in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; and
spectrometers specially adapted to detecting the boron-11 nuclei are available
commercially. The
10
B and
11
B nuclei also cause splitting in the resonances of attached
nuclei.
[52]
Occurrence
See also Category:Borate minerals.
Boron is rare in the
Universe and solar
system due to trace
formation in the Big
Bang and in stars. It
is formed in minor
amounts in cosmic
ray spallation
nucleosynthesis
and may be found
uncombined in cosmic dust and meteoroid materials. In
the high oxygen environment of Earth, boron is always
found fully oxidized to borate.
Although boron is a relatively rare element in the Earth's crust, representing only 0.001%
of the crust mass, it can be highly concentrated by the action of water, in which many
borates are soluble. The worldwide commercial borate deposits are estimated at 10 million
tonnes.
[53][54]
Turkey and the United States are the world's largest producers of boron.
[55][56]
Turkey has 63% of the world's boron reserves.
[57]
Boron does not appear on Earth
in elemental form but is found combined in borax, boric acid, colemanite, kernite, ulexite
and borates. Boric acid is sometimes found in volcanic spring waters.
Ulexite is one of over a hundred borate minerals; it is a fibrous crystal where individual
fibers can guide light like optical fibers.
[58]
Economically important sources of boron are rasorite (kernite) and tincal (borax ore). They
are both found in the Mojave Desert of California where the Rio Tinto Borax Mine (also
known as the U.S. Borax Boron Mine) near Boron,
California, is California's largest open-pit mine and the largest borax mine in the world,
producing nearly half the world's borates from this single site.
[59][60]
However, the largest
borax deposits known, many still untapped, are in Central and Western Turkey, including
the provinces of Eskiehir, Ktahya and Balkesir.
[61][62][63]
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Production
The production of boron compounds does not involve formation of elemental boron, but
exploits the convenient availability of borates.
The earliest routes to elemental boron involved reduction of boric oxide with metals such
as magnesium or aluminium. However the product is almost always contaminated with
metal borides. Pure boron can be prepared by reducing volatile boron halides with
hydrogen at high temperatures. Ultrapure boron for use in the semiconductor industry is
produced by the decomposition of diborane at high temperatures and then further purified
with the zone melting or Czochralski processes.
[64]
Market trend
Estimated global consumption of boron rose to a record 1.8 million tonnes of B
2
O
3
in
2005, following a period of strong growth in demand from Asia, Europe and North America.
Boron mining and refining capacities are considered to be adequate to meet expected
levels of growth through the next decade.
The form in which boron is consumed has changed in recent years. The use of ores like
colemanite has declined following concerns over arsenic content. Consumers have moved
towards the use of refined borates and boric acid that have a lower pollutant content. The
average cost of crystalline boron is $5/g.
[65]
Increasing demand for boric acid has led a number of producers to invest in additional
capacity. Turkey's state-owned Eti Mine Works opened a new boric acid plant with the
production capacity of 100,000 tonnes per year at Emet in 2003. Rio Tinto Group increased
the capacity of its boron plant from 260,000 tonnes per year in 2003 to 310,000 tonnes per
year by May 2005, with plans to grow this to 366,000 tonnes per year in 2006. Chinese
boron producers have been unable to meet rapidly growing demand for high quality
borates. This has led to imports of sodium tetraborate (borax) growing by a hundredfold
between 2000 and 2005 and boric acid imports increasing by 28% per year over the same
period.
[66][67]
The rise in global demand has been driven by high growth rates in fiberglass and
borosilicate production. A rapid increase in the manufacture of reinforcement-grade
fiberglass in Asia with a consequent increase in demand for borates has offset the
development of boron-free reinforcement-grade fiberglass in Europe and the USA. The
recent rises in energy prices may lead to greater use of insulation-grade fiberglass, with
consequent growth in the boron consumption. Roskill Consulting Group forecasts that
world demand for boron will grow by 3.4% per year to reach 21 million tonnes by 2010.
The highest growth in demand is expected to be in Asia where demand could rise by an
average 5.7% per year.
[66][68]
Applications
Nearly all boron ore extracted from the Earth is destined for refinement into boric acid and
sodium tetraborate pentahydrate. In the United States, 70% of the boron is used for the
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Borosilicate glassware.
Displayed are two beakers
and a test tube.
production of glass and ceramics.
[69][70]
The major global industrial-scale uses of boron
compounds are in the borax component of cellulose based insulation (where it is an
insecticide), and in sodium perborate bleaches.
Glass and ceramics
Borosilicate glass, which is typically 1215% B
2
O
3
, 80% SiO
2
,
and 2% Al
2
O
3
, has a low coefficient of thermal expansion
giving it a good resistance to thermal shock. Duran and Pyrex
are two major brand names for this glass, used both in
laboratory glassware and in consumer cookware and
bakeware, chiefly for this resistance.
[71]
Boron filaments are high-strength, lightweight materials that
are used chiefly for advanced aerospace structures as a
component of composite materials, as well as limited
production consumer and sporting goods such as golf clubs
and fishing rods.
[72][73]
The fibers can be produced by
chemical vapor deposition of boron on a tungsten filament.
[55][74]
Boron fibers and sub-millimeter sized crystalline boron springs
are produced by laser-assisted chemical vapor deposition.
Translation of the focused laser beam allows to produce even
complex helical structures. Such structures show good mechanical properties (elastic
modulus 450 GPa, fracture strain 3.7%, fracture stress 17 GPa) and can be applied as
reinforcement of ceramics or in micromechanical systems.
[75]
Detergent formulations and bleaching agents
Borax is used in various household laundry and cleaning products,
[76]
including the "20
Mule Team Borax" laundry booster and "Boraxo" powdered hand soap. It is also present in
some tooth bleaching formulas.
[70]
Sodium perborate serves as a source of active oxygen in many detergents, laundry
detergents, cleaning products, and laundry bleaches. However, despite its name,
"Borateem" laundry bleach no longer contains any boron compounds, using sodium
percarbonate instead as a bleaching agent.
[77]
Insecticides
Boric acid is used as an insecticide, notably against ants, fleas, and cockroaches.
[78]
Semiconductors
Boron is a useful dopant for such semiconductors as silicon, germanium, and silicon
carbide. Having one fewer valence electron than the host atom, it donates a hole resulting
in p-type conductivity. Traditional method of introducing boron into semiconductors is via its
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Boron carbide is used for
inner plates of ballistic
vests
atomic diffusion at high temperatures. This process uses either solid (B
2
O
3
), liquid (BBr
3
),
or gaseous boron sources (B
2
H
6
or BF
3
). However, after the 1970s, it was mostly replaced
by ion implantation, which relies mostly on BF
3
as a boron source.
[79]
Boron trichloride gas
is also an important chemical in semiconductor industry, however not for doping but rather
for plasma etching of metals and their oxides.
[80]
Triethylborane is also injected into vapor
deposition reactors as a boron source. Examples are the plasma deposition of boron-
containing hard carbon films, silicon nitride-boron nitride films, and for doping of diamond
film with boron.
[81]
Magnets
Boron is a component of neodymium magnets (Nd
2
Fe
14
B), which are among the strongest
type of permanent magnet. These magnets are found in a variety of electromechanical and
electronic devices, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) medical imaging systems,
in compact and relatively small motors and actuators. As examples, computer HDDs (hard
disk drives), CD (compact disk) and DVD (digital versatile disk) players rely on neodymium
magnet motors to deliver intense rotary power in a remarkably compact package. In mobile
phones 'Neo' magnets provide the magnetic field which allows tiny speakers to deliver
appreciable audio power.
[3]
High-hardness and abrasive compounds
Several boron compounds are known for their extreme
hardness and toughness.
Boron carbide and cubic boron nitride powders are widely
used as abrasives. Metal borides are used for coating tools
through chemical vapor deposition or physical vapor
deposition. Implantation of boron ions into metals and alloys,
through ion implantation or ion beam deposition, results in a
spectacular increase in surface resistance and microhardness.
Laser alloying has also been successfully used for the same
purpose. These borides are an alternative to diamond coated
tools, and their (treated) surfaces have similar properties to
those of the bulk boride.
[82]
Boron carbide
Boron carbide is a ceramic material which is obtained by decomposing B
2
O
3
with carbon in
the electric furnace:
2 B
2
O
3
+ 7 C B
4
C + 6 CO
Boron carbide's structure is only approximately B
4
C, and it shows a clear depletion of
carbon from this suggested stoichiometric ratio. This is due to its very complex structure.
The substance can be seen with empirical formula B
12
C
3
(i.e., with B
12
dodecahedra
being a motif), but with less carbon as the suggested C
3
units are replaced with B-C
chains, and there are smaller (B
6
) octahedra present as well. (See the article for structural
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Material Diamond cubic-BC
2
N cubic-BC
5 cubic-BN B
4
C ReB
2
Vickers hardness
(GPa)
115 76 71 62 38 22
Fracture toughness
(MPa m
1/2
)
5.3 4.5 9.5 6.8 3.5
Mechanical properties of BCN solids
[84]
and ReB
2
[85]
analysis).
The repeating polymer plus semi-crystalline structure of boron carbide gives it great
structural strength per weight. It is used in tank armor, bulletproof vests, and numerous
other structural applications.
Boron carbide's ability to absorb neutrons without forming long-lived radionuclides
(especially when doped with extra boron-10) makes the material attractive as an absorbent
for neutron radiation arising in nuclear power plants. Nuclear applications of boron carbide
include shielding, control rods and shut-down pellets. Within control rods, boron carbide is
often powdered, to increase its surface area.
[83]
Other superhard boron compounds
Heterodiamond (also called BCN);
Boron nitride. This material is isoelectronic to carbon. Similar to carbon, it has both
hexagonal (soft graphite-like h-BN) and cubic (hard, diamond-like c-BN) forms. h-BN
is used as a high temperature component and lubricant. c-BN, also known under
commercial name borazon,
[86]
is a superior abrasive. Its hardness is only slightly
smaller, but chemical stability is superior to that of diamond.
Rhenium diboride can be produced at ambient pressures, but is rather expensive
because of rhenium. The hardness of ReB
2
exhibits considerable anisotropy because
of its hexagonal layered structure. Its value is comparable to that of tungsten carbide,
silicon carbide, titanium diboride or zirconium diboride.
[85]
AlMgB
14
+ TiB
2
composites possess high hardness and wear resistance and are
used in either bulk form or as coatings for components exposed to high temperatures
and wear loads.
[87]
Shielding in nuclear reactors
Boron shielding is used as a control for nuclear reactors, taking advantage of its high
cross-section for neutron capture.
[88]
Other nonmedical uses
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Launch of Apollo 15 Saturn V
rocket, using triethylborane ignitor
Because of its distinctive green flame, amorphous
boron is used in pyrotechnic flares.
[89]
Starch and casein-based adhesives contain
sodium tetraborate decahydrate (Na
2
B
4
O
7
10
H
2
O)
Some anti-corrosion systems contain borax.
[90]
Sodium borates are used as a flux for soldering
silver and gold and with ammonium chloride for
welding ferrous metals.
[91]
They are also fire
retarding additives to plastics and rubber
articles.
[92]
Boric acid (also known as orthoboric acid) H
3
BO
3
is used in the production of textile
fiberglass and flat panel displays
[70][93]
and in many PVAc and PVOH based
adhesives.
Triethylborane is a substance which ignites the JP-7 fuel of the Pratt & Whitney J58
turbojet/ramjet engines powering the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.
[94]
It was also used
to ignite the F-1 Engines on the Saturn V Rocket utilized by NASA's Apollo and
Skylab programs from 1967 until 1973. Triethylborane is suitable for this because of
its pyrophoric properties, especially the fact that it burns with a very high
temperature.
[95]
Triethylborane is an industrial initiator in radical reactions, where it is
effective even at low temperatures.
Borates are used as environmentally benign wood preservatives.
[96]
Pharmaceutical and biological applications
Boric acid has antiseptic, antifungal, and antiviral properties and for these reasons is
applied as a water clarifier in swimming pool water treatment.
[97]
Mild solutions of boric
acid have been used as eye antiseptics.
Bortezomib (Velcade). Boron appears as an active element in its first-approved organic
pharmaceutical in the novel pharmaceutical bortezomib, a new class of drug called the
proteasome inhibitors, which are active in myeloma and one form of lymphoma (it is in
currently in experimental trials against other types of lymphoma). The boron atom in
bortezomib binds the catalytic site of the 26S proteasome
[98]
with high affinity and
specificity.
A number of potential boronated pharmaceuticals using boron-10, have been
prepared for use in boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT).
[99]
Some boron compounds show promise in treating arthritis, though none have as yet
been generally approved for the purpose.
[100]
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Research areas
Magnesium diboride is an important superconducting material with the transition
temperature of 39 K. MgB
2
wires are produced with the powder-in-tube process and
applied in superconducting magnets.
[101][102]
Amorphous boron is used as a melting point depressant in nickel-chromium braze
alloys.
[103]
Hexagonal boron nitride forms atomically thin layers, which have been used to enhance
the electron mobility in graphene devices.
[104][105]
It also forms nanotubular structures
(BNNTs), which have with high strength, high chemical stability, and high thermal
conductivity, among its list of desirable properties.
[106]
Natural biological role
There is a boron-containing natural antibiotic, boromycin, isolated from streptomyces.
[107][108]
Boron is an essential plant nutrient, required primarily for maintaining the integrity
of cell walls. Conversely, high soil concentrations of > 1.0 ppm can cause marginal and tip
necrosis in leaves as well as poor overall growth performance. Levels as low as 0.8 ppm
can cause these same symptoms to appear in plants particularly sensitive to boron in the
soil. Nearly all plants, even those somewhat tolerant of boron in the soil, will show at least
some symptoms of boron toxicity when boron content in the soil is greater than 1.8 ppm.
When this content exceeds 2.0 ppm, few plants will perform well and some may not
survive. When boron levels in plant tissue exceed 200 ppm symptoms of boron toxicity are
likely to appear.
[109][110][111]
In 2013, Steven Benner suggested it was possible that boron
and molybdenum catalyzed the production of RNA on Mars with life being transported to
Earth via a meteorite around 3 billion years ago.
[112]
As an ultratrace element, boron is necessary for the optimal health of rats and a boron
deficiency not easy to observe, although it is necessary in such small amounts that
ultrapurified foods and dust filtration of air is necessary to induce boron deficiency, which
manifest as poor coat or hair quality. Presumably, boron is necessary to other mammals.
No deficiency syndrome in humans has been described. Small amounts of boron occur
widely in the diet, and the amounts needed in the diet would, by analogy with rodent
studies, be very small. The exact physiological role of boron in the animal kingdom is
poorly understood.
[113]
Boron occurs in all foods produced from plants. Since 1989 its nutritional value has been
argued. It is thought that boron plays several biochemical roles in animals, including
humans.
[114]
The U.S. Department of agriculture conducted an experiment in which
postmenopausal women took 3 mg of boron a day. The results showed that supplemental
boron reduced excretion of calcium by 44%, and activated estrogen and vitamin D,
suggesting a possible role in the suppression of osteoporosis. However, whether these
effects were conventionally nutritional, or medicinal, could not be determined. The U.S.
National Institutes of Health states that "Total daily boron intake in normal human diets
ranges from 2.14.3 mg boron/day."
[115][116]
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Congenital endothelial dystrophy type 2, a rare form of corneal dystrophy, is linked to
mutations in SLC4A11 gene that encodes a transporter reportedly regulating the
intracellular concentration of boron.
[117]
Analytical quantification
For determination of boron content in food or materials the colorimetric curcumin method is
used. Boron is converted to boric acid or borates and on reaction with curcumin in acidic
solution, a red colored boron-chelate complex, rosocyanine, is formed.
[118]
Health issues and toxicity
Elemental boron, boron oxide, boric acid, borates, and many organoboron compounds are
non-toxic to humans and animals (approximately similar to table salt). The LD
50
(dose at
which there is 50% mortality) for animals is about 6 g per kg of body weight. Substances
with LD
50
above 2 g are considered non-toxic. The minimum lethal dose for humans has
not been established. An intake of 4 g/day of boric acid was reported without incidents, but
more than this is considered toxic for more than a few doses. Intakes of more than
0.5 grams per day for 50 days cause minor digestive and other problems suggestive of
toxicity.
[119]
Single medical doses of 20 g of boric acid for neutron capture therapy have
been used without undue toxicity. Fish have survived for 30 min in a saturated boric acid
solution and can survive longer in strong borax solutions.
[120]
Boric acid is more toxic to
insects than to mammals, and is routinely used as an insecticide.
[78]
The boranes (boron hydrogen compounds) and similar gaseous compounds are quite
poisonous. As usual, it is not an element that is intrinsically poisonous, but toxicity
depends on structure.
[11][12]
The boranes are toxic as well as highly flammable and require special care when handling.
Sodium borohydride presents a fire hazard due to its reducing nature, and the liberation of
hydrogen on contact with acid. Boron halides are corrosive.
[121]
See also
Allotropes of boron
Category:Boron
compounds
Boron deficiency
Boron oxide
Boron nitride
Boron neutron capture
therapy
Boronic acid
Hydroboration-
oxidation reaction
Suzuki coupling
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