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• n  a salt or ester of boric acid

• When washed and recrystallized, kermite is ready for market as pure sodium borate.
• But it has close to a natural monopoly, holds 63% of the free world's deposits, including the only big deposit of sodium borate ore (at Boron), the cheapest and easiest type of .

News & Articles

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• Martian clay contains chemical implicated in the origin of life, astrobiologists find
  Researchers have discovered high concentrations of boron in a Martian meteorite. When present in its oxidized form (borate), boron may have played a key role in the formation of RNA, one of the building blocks for life.
  June 11, 2013 - Science Daily