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The right pH and the organic matter help ensure that nutrients, particularly essential micronutrients like boron, are readily available. — Kris Wetherbee, Good Housekeeping, "6 Things You Need to Know Before Growing Broccoli," 23 July 2018 The right pH and the organic matter help ensure that nutrients, particularly essential micronutrients like boron, are readily available. — Kris Wetherbee, Good Housekeeping, "6 Things You Need to Know Before Growing Broccoli," 23 July 2018 The right pH and the organic matter help ensure that nutrients, particularly essential micronutrients like boron, are readily available. — Kris Wetherbee, Good Housekeeping, "6 Things You Need to Know Before Growing Broccoli," 23 July 2018 Instead of a flimsy metal space-frame chassis, there's extensive use of boron steel in the chassis. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, "Volvo’s new V60 is proof the station wagon must never die," 17 Oct. 2018 The boron, which is encased by protective rock, heads miles underground to the lower mantle. — Christopher Carbone, Fox News, "Extremely rare blue diamonds lurk deep in Earth's core," 2 Aug. 2018 Sharygin said that synthetic boron nitride, another mineral produced at insanely hot temperatures, is likely the only mineral that comes close to being as hard as a diamond. — Kimberly Hickok, Fox News, "Mineral never seen on Earth found inside Russian meteorite," 2 Oct. 2018 Their greyish-blue features come from trace particles of boron, comparatively less rare than diamonds, caught up within these bonds. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "The Hope Diamond Formed At The Bottom of The Ocean," 2 Aug. 2018 Their striking blue hue, which is partly dependent on the amount of the element of boron the gem captures, is helping scientists to unlock the mysteries deep in the planet's core. — Christopher Carbone, Fox News, "Extremely rare blue diamonds lurk deep in Earth's core," 2 Aug. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'boron.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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