boron

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.

• enPR: bôr'ŏn, IPA^(key): /ˈbɔːˌɹɒn/

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• Rhymes: -ɔːɹɒn
• Hyphenation: bo‧ron

boron (usually uncountable, plural borons)

1. 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 B₆-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.

2. A single atom of this element.
   • 2001 August 10, J. Akimitsu; K. Takenawa; K. Suzuki; H. Harima; Y. Kuramoto, “High-Temperature Ferromagnetism in CaB₂C₂”, in Science‎, volume 293, number 5532, →DOI, pages 1125–1127:

     For each X point, four borons in the same plane composing a B₆ cluster provide these orbitals.

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

• Borno, Broon, broon

boron

1. accusative singular of boro

bor +‎ -on

• IPA^(key): [ˈboron]
• Hyphenation: bo‧ron

boron

1. superessive singular of bor

• بورون‎

From English boron.

• IPA^(key): /bɔrɔn/
• Rhymes: -rɔn, -ɔn

boron (Jawi spelling بورون)

1. boron (chemical element)

Borrowed from English boron.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.rɔn/

boron m

1. (chemistry) boron

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

borōn

1. to bore

• German: bohren

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

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔrɔn/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈboːrɔn/, /ˈbɔrɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɔrɔn

boron m (uncountable)

1. boron

• 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