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Summary: Sir Humphry Davy, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thenard first discovered boron in 1808. Interesting Facts About Boron. 1  There are 2 stable isotopes of boron (boron-10 and boron-11).  Turkey and the United States are the worldâs largest producers of boron.
These early uses echo in borax's (and ultimately, boron's) name: The word is from the Arabic buraq, or white. However, the element itself was not extracted until 1808, according to the Royal Society of Chemistry. Even then, chemists weren't able to get a pure form of boron. That goal was not reached until a century later, in 1909, when U.S. chemist Ezekiel Weintraub isolated 99 percent pure boron.