# boron
## English
### Etymology

From the stem of borax + -on (ending used to form names of substances). Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy as a modification of his earlier word boracium.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: bôr'ŏn, IPA: /ˈbɔːˌɹɒn/
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* Rhymes: -ɔːɹɒn
* Hyphenation: bo‧ron

### Noun

boron (usually uncountable, plural borons)
* The chemical element (symbol B) with an atomic number of 5, which is a metalloid found in its pure form as a dark amorphous powder.
** 1976, Allen M[yron] Alper, editor, Phase Diagrams: Materials Science and Technology (Refractory Materials; 6), New York, N.Y., London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 106:The B$_6$-type octahedral borons are each bonded to five other boron atoms; four are part of the same octahedron, and one is external to this octahedron.
* A single atom of this element.
** 2001 August 10, J. Akimitsu, K. Takenawa, K. Suzuki, H. Harima, Y. Kuramoto, “High-Temperature Ferromagnetism in CaB$_2$C$_2$”, in Science‎, volume 293, number 5532, →DOI, pages 1125–1127:For each X point, four borons in the same plane composing a B$_6$ cluster provide these orbitals.

#### Derived terms

* aluminium boron oxide
* borole
* boron-10
* boron-11
* boron arsenide
* boronation
* boron carbide
* boron chloride
* boron deficiency
* boron fluoride
* boron group
* boron hydride
* boronic
* boronic acid
* boron iodide
* boronlike
* boron nitride
* boronolectin
* boron orthophosphate
* boron oxide
* boron phosphate
* boron phosphide
* boron sulfide, boron sulphide
* boron tree
* boron tribromide
* boron trichloride
* boron trifluoride
* boron triiodide
* boron trioxide
* boron triphosphide
* borophene
* boryl
* diboron
* eka-boron
* ekaboron
* ferroboron
* nonboron
* organoboron
* radioboron
* tetraboron
* triethylboron

#### Related terms

* bor-
* borane
* borate
* borax
* Borazon
* boric
* boride
* boro-
* boruret

#### Translations
### See also

* kernite
* rasorite
* tincal
* ulexite

### References

* Boron on the British Royal Society of Chemistry's online periodic table

### Anagrams

* Borno, Broon, broon

## Cornish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English boron.

### Noun

boron m
* boron

### Mutation
## Esperanto
### Noun

boron
* accusative singular of boro

## Hungarian
### Etymology

bor +‎ -on

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈboron]
* Hyphenation: bo‧ron

### Noun

boron
* superessive singular of bor

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Internationalism

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈboron/ [ˈbo.ron]
* Rhymes: -oron
* Syllabification: bo‧ron

### Noun

boron (plural boron-boron)
* (chemistry) boron

#### Alternative forms

* B (initialism)

### Further reading

* “boron” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Malay
### Etymology

From English boron.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔrɔn/
* Rhymes: -rɔn, -ɔn

### Noun

boron (Jawi spelling بورون, plural boron-boron, informal 1st possessive boronku, 2nd possessive boronmu, 3rd possessive boronnya)
* boron (chemical element)

## Maltese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English boron.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔ.rɔn/

### Noun

boron m
* (chemistry) boron

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *borōn, from Proto-Germanic *burōną, whence also Old English borian, Old Norse bora.

### Verb

borōn
* to bore

#### Descendants

* German: bohren

## Welsh
### Etymology

Borrowed from English boron, from borax, from Anglo-Norman boreis, from Medieval Latin baurach (“borax”), from Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq), from Middle Persian bwlk' (bōrag).

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /ˈbɔrɔn/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ˈboːrɔn/, /ˈbɔrɔn/
* Rhymes: -ɔrɔn

### Noun

boron m (uncountable)
* boron

#### Derived terms

* boron nitrid (“boron nitride”)
* boron nitrid ciwbig (“cubic boron nitride”)
* boron nitrid hecsagonol (“hexagonal boron nitride”)
* boron trifflworid (“boron trifluoride”)
* nanodiwb boron nitrideg (“boron nitride nanotub(ul)e”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “boron”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies