Top 19 Quotes About Boron
#1. Acid strength is measured by the pH scale, with lower numbers being stronger, and in 2005 a chemist from New Zealand invented a boron-based acid called a carborane, with a pH of -18
Sam Kean
#3. You see, the chemists have a complicated way of counting: instead of saying "one, two, three, four, five protons," they say, "hydrogen, helium, lithium, beryllium, boron.
Richard Feynman
#4. We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
Irene Joliot-Curie
#5. Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds.
Sam Kean
#6. All statements about the hydrides of boron earlier than 1912, when Stock began to work upon them, are untrue.
Alfred Stock
#7. MOSFETs can be constructed as either NMOS or PMOS types, based on the arrangement of doped silicon used. Silicon doped with boron is called P-type (positive) because it lacks electrons, whereas silicon doped with phosphorus is called N-type (negative) because it has an excess of free electrons.
Scott Mueller
#8. The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality.
Sam Kean
#9. When Natasha thinks about love, this is what she thinks: nothing lasts forever. Like hydrogen-7 or lithium-5 or boron-7, love has an infinitesimally small half-life that decays to nothing. And when its gone, its like it was never there at all.
Nicola Yoon
#10. She had been like a roller coaster aficionado for whom tame county fair roller coasters were as good as the ones that spun you upside down and dropped you so fast your eyes turned red. It was all just a ride.
Peter Straub
#11. Live this with me, just live it, whatever happens, however it happens, live it with me for two days. It doesn't go the way you like, we'll talk Monday night. It goes the way you like, we live it real and ride it out. Will you give me that, honey?
Kristen Ashley
#12. I've never had much notoriety. It's fine with me.
James Harden
#14. Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.
Alison Jackson
#15. Life is not a transcript. This isn't a test you can ace or fail. You can get Cs and Ds and still be okay.
Robin Friedman
#16. Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing.
Haim Harari
#17. If you want to die, don't make a mistake and not quite kill yourself because the medical bills in America are hideous.
Robin Williams
#18. It was easier to be brave when someone needed your protection.
Robert Jordan
