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Diagram showing different types of borate linkages, including BO3 triangles, multiple group arrangements, a borate chain, a complex triangle, and a quadrangle group as found in borax, with molecular structures illustrated.

borate

chemical compound

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inorganic polymer
Borates
These compounds are salts of the oxyacids of boron (B), such as boric acid, H₃BO₃, metaboric acid, HBO₂, and tetraboric acid, H₂B₄O₇. Borates result either from the reaction of a base with a boron oxyacid or from the melting of boric acid or boron…
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These compounds are salts of the oxyacids of boron (B), such as boric acid, H₃BO₃, metaboric acid, HBO₂, and tetraboric acid, H₂B₄O₇. Borates result either from the reaction of a base with a boron oxyacid or from the melting of boric acid or boron…
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boron
Properties, occurrence, and uses
…form of boric acid or borates, traces of boron are necessary for growth of many land plants and thus are indirectly essential for animal life. Typical effects of long-term boron deficiency are stunted, misshapen growth; vegetable “brown heart” and sugar beet “dry rot” are among the disorders due to boron…
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…form of boric acid or borates, traces of boron are necessary for growth of many land plants and thus are indirectly essential for animal life. Typical effects of long-term boron deficiency are stunted, misshapen growth; vegetable “brown heart” and sugar beet “dry rot” are among the disorders due to boron…
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