Chem. [f. BOR-AX, with the ending of CARB-ON, the element being extracted from borax, and resembling carbon in some of its properties.] One of the elementary bodies; a non-metallic solid, not fusible at any known temperature. It is obtained as a dark brown or greenish brown powder (amorphous boron); and in a less pure form as crystals (adamantine boron). In some of its properties it resembles carbon and silicon. Symbol B.
1812. Sir H. Davy, Chem. Philos., 315. I first procured boron in October, 1807, by the electrical decomposition of boracic acid.
1869. Roscoe, Elem. Chem., 151. Boron combined with oxygen and sodium is found as borax in nature.
