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borate
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Borates are the name for a large number of boron -containing oxyanions . The term "borates" may also refer to tetrahedral boron anions, or more loosely to chemical compounds which contain borate anions of either description. Larger borates are composed ...
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Borate \Bo"rate\, n. [From Boric .] (Chem.) A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.
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n. A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.
Usage examples of borate.
The borates are mostly fusible compounds, and are soluble in acids and in solutions of ammonic salts.
A Bussard ramjet will put out a lot of funny chemicals: high-energy hydrogen and helium, lithium radicals, some borates, even lithium hydride, which is generally an impossible chemical.
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A Bussard ramjet will put out a lot of funny chemicals: high-energy hydrogen and helium, lithium radicals, some borates, even lithium hydride, which is generally an impossible chemical.
To make it, you needed boric acid, or one of the borate salts, such as borax.
Boron oxide is readily obtained from borax (hydrated sodium borate), other borate salts, or boric acid.
Sodium borate, sodium carbonate and sodium nitrate, for example, all came up as flat-out sodium in SEM.