The Borate Minerals are minerals which contain a borate anion group. The borate (BO3) units may be polymerised similar to the SiO4 unit of the silicate...

trimethyl borate B(OCH3)3 but they are alkoxides. Borate ions occur, alone or with other anions, in many borate and borosilicate minerals such as borax...

optical properties, is a hydrous borate hydroxide of sodium and calcium with the chemical formula NaCaB5O6(OH)6·5H2O. The mineral occurs as silky white rounded...

Painite is a very rare borate mineral. It was first found in Myanmar by British mineralogist and gem dealer Arthur C.D. Pain who misidentified it as ruby...

Howlite, a calcium borosilicate hydroxide (Ca2B5SiO9(OH)5), is a borate mineral found in evaporite deposits. Howlite was discovered near Windsor, Nova...

Borax (Na2B4O5(OH)4 · 8 H2O) is a borate mineral found in evaporite deposits of alkaline lacustrine environments and as a surface efflorescence in arid...

covalent bonds, resulting in many compounds such as boric acid, the mineral sodium borate, and the ultra-hard crystals of boron carbide and boron nitride...

Chambersite is a manganese borate mineral with formula Mn3B7O13Cl. It is a member of the borate mineral series that includes other minerals such as ericaite (Fe3B7O13Cl)...

Jeremejevite is an aluminium borate mineral with variable fluoride and hydroxide ions. Its chemical formula is Al6B5O15(F,OH)3. It is considered as one...

Boracite is a magnesium borate mineral with formula: Mg3B7O13Cl. It occurs as blue green, colorless, gray, yellow to white crystals in the orthorhombic...

Sassolite is a borate mineral, specifically the mineral form of boric acid. It is usually white to gray, and colourless in transmitted light. It can also...

nature as the mineral sassolite. It is a weak acid that yields various borate anions and salts, and can react with alcohols to form borate esters. Boric...

Azoproite is a rare manganese iron borate mineral with the chemical formula (Mg,Fe2+)2(Fe3+,Ti,Mg)(BO3)O2. It was first identified near Lake Baikal, Russia...

(CaB3O4(OH)3·H2O) is a borate mineral found in evaporite deposits of alkaline lacustrine environments. Colemanite is a secondary mineral that forms by alteration...

was originally estimated that there are 200 million tons of the lithium borate ore, which would make the future Jadar mines one of the world's largest...

commonly occurs with other evaporite deposit minerals such as several of the sulfates, halides, and borates. The name halite is derived from the Ancient...

Lithium borate, also known as lithium tetraborate is an inorganic compound with the formula Li2B4O7. A colorless solid, lithium borate is used in making...

hydroxides, carbonates and nitrates, borates, sulfates, phosphates, and organic compounds. Most non-silicate mineral species are rare (constituting in total...

Karlite (kar'-lite) is a silky white to light green orthorhombic borate mineral, not to be confused with tremolite-actinolite. It has a general formula...

Ludwigite is a magnesium-iron borate mineral: Mg2FeBO5. Ludwigite typically occurs in magnesian iron skarn and other high temperature contact metamorphic...

Dumortierite is a fibrous variably colored aluminium boro-silicate mineral, Al7BO3(SiO4)3O3. Dumortierite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system typically...

classification of minerals is based on chemical composition. However, the defining elements for many mineral groups, such as boron in borates and phosphorus...

(Be2BO3OH) is a beryllium borate mineral named after Swedish explorer and mineralogist Axel Hamberg (1863–1933). The mineral occurs as white or colorless...

Silicate minerals are rock-forming minerals made up of silicate groups. They are the largest and most important class of minerals and make up approximately...

Schiavinatoite is a very rare mineral, the niobium endmember of a borate solid solution with the chemical formula (Nb,Ta)BO4. The tantalum analogue is...

Calcium borate (Ca3(BO3)2). It can be prepared by reacting calcium metal with boric acid. The resulting precipitate is calcium borate. A hydrated form...

Sinhalite is a borate mineral with formula MgAl(BO4). Sinhalite was first found in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in 1952, and was named from Sinhala - the Sanskrit...

Admontite is a hydrated magnesium borate mineral with formula MgB6O10·7H2O. Occurrence - In a gypsum deposit. Associations: gypsum, anhydrite, hexahydrite...

rasorite, is a hydrated sodium borate hydroxide mineral with formula Na 2B 4O 6(OH) 2·3H 2O. It is a colorless to white mineral crystallizing in the monoclinic...

A metaborate is a borate anion consisting of boron and oxygen, with empirical formula BO−2. Metaborate also refers to any salt or ester of such anion (e...