Boron monoxide (B
2O) is a chemical compound of
boron and oxygen. Two experimental studies have proposed existence of diamond-like and graphite-like B
2O, as for
boron nitride
Boron nitride is a thermally and chemically resistant refractory compound of boron and nitrogen with the chemical formula BN. It exists in various crystalline forms that are isoelectronic to a similarly structured carbon lattice. The hexagon ...
and
carbon
Carbon () is a chemical element with the symbol C and atomic number 6. It is nonmetallic and tetravalent—its atom making four electrons available to form covalent chemical bonds. It belongs to group 14 of the periodic table. Carbon makes ...
solids. However, a later, systematic, experimental study of boron oxide phase diagram suggests that B
2O is unstable. The instability of the graphite-like B
2O phase was also predicted theoretically.
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Boron suboxide
Boron suboxide (chemical formula B6O) is a solid compound with a structure built of eight icosahedra at the apexes of the rhombohedral unit cell. Each icosahedron is composed of twelve boron atoms. Two oxygen atoms are located in the interstices a ...
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Boron trioxide
Boron trioxide or diboron trioxide is the oxide of boron with the formula . It is a colorless transparent solid, almost always glassy (amorphous), which can be crystallized only with great difficulty. It is also called boric oxide or boria. It h ...
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Boron
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Aluminium(I) oxide
Aluminium (aluminum in American and Canadian English) is a chemical element with the Symbol (chemistry), symbol Al and atomic number 13. Aluminium has a density lower than those of other common metals, at approximately one third ...
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Boron compounds
Oxides
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