April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
296 pages
5h 20m
English

The compounds of this metalloid burn with a soft green flame,
All hail to borosilicate, its heat-stable claim to fame.
Its nitride’s hard and oh so rough,
GROUP 13 METALLOID
Boron is at the top of group 13 on the periodic table, at the start of a boundary line that descends diagonally toward the right of the periodic table. The vast swathe of elements on the left of this line are metals, while those in the comparatively meager cohort on the right are non-metals. ...