Everyone knows about the disputed discovery of oxygen, but it's less widely known that boron is dogged by the same controversy, and with a similar Anglo–Gallic flavour. In this case the rivals ...

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But very few of them have been discovered. Theoreticians had predicted that isotopically pure cubic boron nitride (c-BN), should have extremely high thermal conductivity - second only to crystals made ...

But very few of them have been discovered. Theoreticians had predicted that isotopically pure cubic boron nitride (c-BN), should have extremely high thermal conductivity - second only to crystals made ...

Chirality is the property of an object that makes it different from its mirror image, like our left and right hands. In ...

Chirality refers to objects that cannot be superimposed onto their mirror images through any combination of rotations or ...

Diamonds, composed of transparent crystals of the element carbon, can be synthesized with small amounts of boron, adjacent to carbon on the periodic table. Boron contains one less electron than ...