Mineral: Borate Minerals

Notes

The major borate minerals are Colemanite and Ulexite. The geology required for borates is found in very few places in the world (mainly southern California, Chile, Turkey, Argentina, Spain, Russia). Borate minerals supply boron, a key flux in glazes, enamels, glasses, etc.

Out Bound Links

• (Minerals - Related) Hydroboracite

  A minor borate ore.

• (Materials) Colemanite - 2CaO.3B2O3.5H2O or CaB3O4(OH)3·H2O
• (Materials) Ulexite - NaCaB5O9·8H2O - Sodium calcium borate

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• (URLs) Borax on Wikipedia
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borax
• (Hazards) Boron Compounds and Their Toxicity
  Many natural mineral and man-made material sources...
• (Glossary) Boron, Borate

  The term 'boron' of course refers to the oxide B2O...

• (Glossary) Borax Frit, Boron Frit

  This term is very generic, referring of course to ...

• (Minerals - Related) Kernite

  A hydrated sodium borate hydroxide mineral.

In Bound Links

• (Materials - Parent mineral) Borax Pentahydrate - Na2B4O7.5H2O - Etibor-48

  Borax 5 Mol, Sodium Tetraborate, Borax 5-hydrate

• (Materials - Parent mineral) Anhydrous Borax - Na2B4O7 - Fused Borax, Sodium Tetraborate

  Calcined Borax, Dehydrated Borax, Pyrobor

• (Materials - Parent mineral) Boric Acid - H3BO3 or B2O3.3H2O

  Boracic acid, Orthoboric Acid, Hydrous Boric Oxide

• (Materials - Parent mineral) Borax Decahydrate - Na2B4O7.10H2O

  Sodium TetraBorate Decahydrate, Borax 10-hydrate, 10 Mol Borax, Neobor

• (Materials - Parent mineral) Boric Oxide - B2O3

  Anhydrous Boric Acid, B2O3

• (Materials - Parent mineral) Disodium Octaborate Tetrahydrate - Na2B8O13.4H2O

  Na2B8O13.4H2O, Polybor