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B
Boron
- Z
- 5
- Mass
- 10.81
- Lifeforce
- Air
It washes clothes, hardens steel, kills fungi — and dates from before the galaxies. No star ever forged boron: it was born where cosmic rays collide. A handful of its crystals can be harder than diamond.
Boron. Element five. Hardens steel, kills fungi, washes clothes. A handful of its crystals can be harder than diamond. Forged not in stars but in cosmic ray collisions — a wanderer from before there were galaxies.
Lab note · Atomic number 5; not formed in stars, but in collisions of cosmic rays.