Sentence examples for eka-boron from inspiring English sources
In 1879 Cleve showed that the newly discovered scandium was the element previously predicted by D.I. Mendeleyev, who called it eka-boron.
He temporarily named those elements after their above-neighbours in the periodic table — eka-aluminum, eka-silicon, eka-boron and so on — and predicted their properties based on their locations.
Mendeleyev was also able to predict the existence, and many of the properties, of the then undiscovered elements eka-boron, eka-aluminum, and eka-silicon, now identified with the elements scandium, gallium, and germanium, respectively.
Mendeleev made several predictions on the upper neighbor of ytttrium, which he called eka-boron.
Before its officially recognized discovery, it was called "eka-iodine" (from Sanskrit eka – "one") to imply it was one space under iodine (in the same manner as eka-silicon, eka-boron, and others).
"God, no!" Mr. Ekas said.
(It is probably beta boron).
Boron has a long history.
