What does the name boron mean? Can anyone help me?

Question

Boron is an element and I really need to know what the name means because my project is due on monday.

Answer 1

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Boron was named for the mineral borax, thought to come from the Persian name burah for that mineral. Boron minerals, mainly borax, were traded over a thousand years ago, when sheep, camel and yak caravans brought borax from desert salt beds in Persia and Tibet to India and the Arab countries. There it was used mainly in making glass.

The element boron was not identified and isolated until 1808, when Sir Humphrey Davy of England, and Joseph-Louis g*y-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thenard of France, discovered that boron could be produced by combining boric acid (H3BO3) and metallic potassium.

Answer 2

Elemental boron does not occur naturally in nature.  It is most commonly found in nature bound up in the compound (ore) called borax.  The word boron is a compound word composed of borax + (the suffix -on) = boron.

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