Product Description: Boron has made a significant impact in our lives through its quiet use in fertilizers, fungicides, soaps, detergents, and heat-resistant glassware. Boron Science: New Technologies and Applications addresses the applications of boron in chemistry, industry, medicine, and pharmacology by explaining its role in problems such as catalysis and hydroboration as well as its use in superconductors, materials, magnetic/nonmagnetic nanoparticles, and medical applications including cancer therapy...read more

Product Description: Boron is a trivalent metalloid element which occurs abundantly in the evaporite ores borax and ulexite. Elemental boron is used as a dopant in the semiconductor industry, while boron compounds play important roles as light structural materials, insecticides and preservatives, and reagents for chemical synthesis...read more

Explains the characteristics of boron, where it is found, how it is used by humans, and its relationship to other elements found in the periodic table.

Discusses boron and where it can be found, how it was discovered, its special characteristics, and its importance to the human body.

Product Description: Advances in Boron and the Boranes Edited by Joel F. Liebman Arthur Greenberg Robert E. Williams This volume, coedited with R. E. Williams of the Loker Research Institute of the University of Southern California, is a collection of interwoven essays in homage to Professor Anton B...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Eine Veröffentlichung des Gmelin-Instituts für Anorganische Chemie der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wisenschaften, Frankfurt am Main