Word: boron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...significantly interrupted at the beginning of World War II when, at six, he was shipped to a country boarding school for safety. He escaped the Blitz but suffered bad cooking and unpredictable canings. Visits from his overworked parents were sporadic. Basic science proved more dependable: the behavior of hydrogen, boron and manganese was more consistent than that of his headmaster...
There are staggering profits to be made selling Russia's precious metals, especially those mined or produced by MINATOM. These include internationally restricted materials like boron 10, which is used in reactor control rods, and osmium 187, a nonradioactive isotope that can sell for more than $100,000 a gram. International trade in other, less exotic materials, such as zirconium, beryllium and hafnium, is controlled by nuclear nonproliferation agreements...
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT CARbon fiber is? Modulus graphite? Boron? They used to put boron into gasoline, or at least into gasoline ads. Now it goes into wildly technological golf clubs and tennis racquets. Or is that argon? Or titanium? Neither of which is to be confused with something called Kevlar -- the stuff they make bullet-proof vests from. Kevlar these days is a very hot item. There are bulletproof Kevlar canoes, for example. And water skis. And bicycle tights. (A lie: the Kevlar bike tights, for the moment, are imaginary. But remember, you saw them here first.) The rest...
...machine. Prince, the firm that in 1976 invented the big, fat tennis racquet for big, fat weekend players, brought out a big-head "Vortex" racquet three years ago. It was the latest in a triumphant evolution of big racquets made of ever more exotic materials, including graphite and boron, and similar alarming materials. The Vortex was made of, let's see, "visco-elastic polymer." Which, of course, was what they made the skin of stealth bombers...
...This research is on the interface between inorganic chemistry and organic chemistry," Evans says. It makes use of transitional elements of the periodic table such as nickel, samarium, boron, rhodium and iridium...