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BORON is remarkable in that its compounds are common and inexpensive although the element occurs quite low on the cosmic abundance scale, alongside lithium and beryllium. The cosmic scarcity of these three light elements is related to the ease with which their nuclei are disintegrated during nucleogenesis, whereas the terrestrial familiarity of borates can be traced to the mobility of boric acid in water, steam and “volcanic emanations”.
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MILLS, A. Boron in Carbonaceous Chondrites. Nature 220, 1113–1114 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2201113a0
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