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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.
Boron (IPA: /ËbÉËrÉn/) is a chemical element with atomic number 5 and the chemical symbol B. A trivalent compound containing boron occurs abundantly in the ore borax. Boron is never found free in nature, and is a non-metal. Several allotropes of boron exist; amorphous boron is a brown powder, though crystalline boron is black, hard (9.3 on Mohs' scale), and a weak conductor at room temperature.