Boron was discovered in 1808 Credit: Alamy What is boron? It’s a chemical element represented by a B in the periodic table and it was discovered in 1808. As well as its pure form, it also has ...

Based on data in the literature, the team recognized that a reaction of hydrogen and boron-10 would produce radioactive beryllium-7. With a half-life of two months, this isotope would certainly ...

Boron forms boron-rich yet stoichiometric compounds with many elements, such as YB 66, NaB 15 and B 50 N 2, all with complex crystal structures different from those of the pure phases.

Borophene – a sheet of boron just one atom thick – can be stabilized in air by bonding its atoms with hydrogen, researchers in the US have discovered. The new technique was developed Mark Hersam at ...