Boron is element 5, a metalloid of the p block, in group 13, period 2. Its ground-state configuration is [He] 2s2 2p1, and it usually shows the oxidation states 0, 3.
It was discovered in 1808, by Davy and Gay-Lussac.
Name origin: borax, a mineral.
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