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European Centre eor Ecotoxicology and Toxicology OE Chemicals (1996) Ecotoxicology of some inorganic borates. Special Report No 11 (Interim report). ECETOC, Brussels, Belgium. 

Elemental boron and the borates are not considered to be toxic, and they do not require special care in handling. However, some of the more exotic boron hydrogen compounds are definitely toxic and do require care. 

Sugars, special Sugar trading Suhr s borate Sulbactam [68373-14-8]... 

Economic Aspects. Table 13 summarizes prices and shipping methods for the principal borate products as of January 1991. Within the United States most shipments are by rail, and additional charges are made for spHt cars, tmck shipments, palletized shipments, etc. Prices are fob Southern California. In general, the borates are stable soHds and require no special handling techniques with the possible exception of dust collection. 

The poor efficiencies of coal-fired power plants in 1896 (2.6 percent on average compared with over forty percent one hundred years later) prompted W. W. Jacques to invent the high temperature (500°C to 600°C [900°F to 1100°F]) fuel cell, and then build a lOO-cell battery to produce electricity from coal combustion. The battery operated intermittently for six months, but with diminishing performance, the carbon dioxide generated and present in the air reacted with and consumed its molten potassium hydroxide electrolyte. In 1910, E. Bauer substituted molten salts (e.g., carbonates, silicates, and borates) and used molten silver as the oxygen electrode. Numerous molten salt batteiy systems have since evolved to handle peak loads in electric power plants, and for electric vehicle propulsion. Of particular note is the sodium and nickel chloride couple in a molten chloroalumi-nate salt electrolyte for electric vehicle propulsion. One special feature is the use of a semi-permeable aluminum oxide ceramic separator to prevent lithium ions from diffusing to the sodium electrode, but still allow the opposing flow of sodium ions. 

Fluoraldehyde (Pierce Huorescence Reagent, contents 0.8 mg mL highly purified fluoraldehyde phfhaldehyde crystals, Brij-35 and mercaptoethanol in specially formulated borate buffer Hexane, 99%... 

In addition to borax, which can be applied directly as a fertilizer, special borate products are manufactured for fertilizer use. These include granulated beads for blending with other common fertilizer products and soluble borates for application as liquid foliar sprays. Boron fertilizers are typically applied at a rate equivalent to about one to two pounds elemental boron per acre, depending on the specific crop and soil conditions. As with most fertilizers, excessive application can have adverse results. Borate fertilizers are phyotoxic at high levels and are sometimes used as non-selective herbicides. 

Borates are widely used in fire retardant applications. For example, cellulose insulation products used in homes and cotton batting used in mattresses and other furnishings are typically treated with boric acid to inhibit smoldering combustion. Borates are also used as fire retardants or fire retardant synergists in plastics, rubber products, and paints, where specialized borates such as zinc borate may be used. 

Standard research-grade agarose is usually sufficient, but special agaroses may be used for specific applications (e.g. high-resolution gels). The electrophoresis buffer is usually prepared and stored as a 10 x concentrated stock. The most commonly used buffer is Tris-borate-EDTA (TBE), or alternatively, one may use Tris-acetate-EDTA (TAE) buffer ... 

Mallinckrodt analytical reagent grade ether, dried over sodium, was used. The methyl borate was the commercial product of American Potash and Chemical Corporation containing 99% ester as received. The phenylmagnesium bromide was purchased as a 3.0M solution in ether from Arapahoe Special Products, Inc., Boulder, Colorado. 

Borate. Lead borate Phi BO ).. w hile cry stals, insoluble, by reaction of lead oxide and boric acid solution. L scd in preparing special types of glass. 

For some special gold(I)-catalyzed processes, see a) boration of vinylarenes ... 

If cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl halides are allowed to react with themselves in the presence of Lewis acids, cations are formed in which the new substituent is the cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl halide itself, for example, [CjH6Fe(CO)i-X-(CO)2-FeC8H8]+ (X = Cl, Br, I). All three cations can be prepared best by treatment of the corresponding halides with boron trifluoride diethyl etherate all are isolated as tetrafluoro-borates.18 The bromine complex can also be obtained by a more complicated procedure by the reaction between C8H8Fe-(CO)2Br and AlBr3 in liquid sulfur dioxide 16 the iodine cation can be isolated from a melt of cyclopentadienyliron dicarbonyl iodide and aluminum chloride.17 In the latter two cases the hexafluorophosphate salts can be obtained. These binuclear cations are of special interest, because they are cleaved by electron donors,16-17 e.g., aniline, pyridine, benzonitrile, acetonitrile, acrylonitrile, with the formation of the corresponding [C8H8Fe(CO)2L]+ cations and the parent halide. Equations for preparation of the tetrafluoroborate are ... 

The thin-layer gel system used for resolving the different fragments produced by the chemical degradation method is essentially that of Sanger, Nicklen and Coulson (1977) as described in Chapter 4. An 8% polyacrylamide gel is usually used though for special purposes a 10 or 12% gel can give an improved resolution of the smallest fragments. For the standard 8% gel the polymerization mixture contains 7.6% (wt/vol) acrylamide, 0.4% (wt/vol) bisacrylamide, 50% (wt/vol) urea, 100 mM Tris-borate, pH 8.3, 2mM EDTA, 0.07% (wt/vol) ammonium persulphate and TEMED catalyst. This solution is poured or injected into a 0.4 x 200 x 400 mm mold to form a gel slab. 

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