please help?! What are some chemical properties of the element boron?

Question

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Answer 1

it is a noble gas, I think.

Answer 2

Fluorides
BF3
B2F4
Chlorides
BCl3
B2Cl4
Bromides
BBr3
Iodides
BI3
Hydrides
B2H6
B4H10
B5H9
B5H11
B6H10
B10H14
Oxides
B2O3
Sulfides
B2S3
Selenides
none listed
Tellurides
none listed
Nitrides
BN

Answer 3

Brown amorphous boron is a product of certain chemical reactions. It contains boron atoms randomly bonded to each other without long range order.

Crystalline boron, a very hard material with a high melting point, exists in many polymorphs. Two rhombohedral forms, α-boron and β-boron containing 12 and 106.7 atoms in the rhombohedral unit cell respectively, and 50-atom tetragonal boron are the three most characterised crystalline forms. These forms are somewhat analogous to carbon crystals (diamond), with the exception that boron has many different possible structures because the 3-bond structure of boron atoms forces them to be asymmetrically bonded in 3-dimensional space.

Optical characteristics of crystalline/metallic boron include the transmittance of infrared light. At standard temperatures, metallic boron is a poor electrical conductor, but is a good electrical conductor at high temperatures.

Chemically boron is electron-deficient, possessing a vacant p-orbital. It is an electrophile. Compounds of boron often behave as Lewis acids, readily bonding with electron-rich substances to compensate for boron's electron deficiency. The reactions of boron are dominated by such requirement for electrons. Also, boron is the least electronegative non-metal, meaning that it is usually oxidized (loses electrons) in reactions.

Boron nitride is a material in which the extra electron of nitrogen (with respect to carbon) in some ways compensates for boron's deficiency of an electron. Boron nitride can be used to make crystals that are extremely hard, second in hardness only to diamond, and the similarity of this compound to diamond extends to other applications. Like diamond, boron nitride acts as an electrical insulator but is an excellent conductor of heat.

Like carbon, boron nitride exists in a second form that has structural and lubricating qualities similar to graphite. This form of boron nitride is composed of layers of fused hexagonal sheets (analogous to graphite). These sheets (unlike those in graphite) are in registry. This means that layers are placed directly upon one another such that a viewer looking down onto the structure would view only the top layer. The polar B-N bonds interfere with electron transfer so that boron nitride in this form is not an electrical conductor (in contrast to graphite which is a semimetal that conducts electricity through a network of pi bonds in the plane of its hexagonal sheets).

Boron nitride nanotubes can be constructed analogously to carbon nanotubes.

Boron is also similar to carbon with its capability to form stable covalently bonded molecular networks

Answer 4

boron z a transition element.. so it has da properties of transition elementz