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12. Further Note on Graphitoid Boron and the Production of Nitride of Boron

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2014

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This note is a continuation of the paper on the “Preparation and Properties of Pure Graphitoid and Adamantine Boron,” by Dr R. M. Morrison and myself, published in the Transactions of this Society, vol. xxviii. p. 689, and its object is to correct a mistake which we have made in giving the properties of this substance. We say—

1st, It is not oxidised by air at a white heat, even superficially.

2d, It does not alloy with platinum at a white heat.

I have again prepared a quantity of this substance and examined its properties under Professor Wohler, and I find that the above statements are wrong. A very fine film of oxide does form on the surface of this substance when heated on platinum foil over the blowpipe, and this film, although very thin and difficult to observe, is sufficient to prevent all further action of the air, and also to prevent its combining with the platinum. This misled us when we previously examined it. If, however, a quantity of it be placed on a piece of platinum foil, and the foil folded over it and pressed down so as to exclude all the air, then on heating it intensely before the blow-pipe the boron at once combines with the platinum and perforates it.

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Proceedings 1879–80
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1880

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