• Question: do you use boron at your own house

    Asked by Heary to Ciarán on 21 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Ciarán O'Brien

      Ciarán O'Brien answered on 21 Nov 2014:

      Yes, but not on its own. Boron is a major component of glass, it helps make the glass stronger, as well as easier to mould when it’s being made into shapes. I have plenty of drinking glasses at home 🙂

      Boron is also used in carbon fibre, and I have a couple of toys and gadgets that contain carbon fibre.

      We had a little problem with ants in our house over the summer, and boron is also used in the pesticides we used to get rid of them.

      So yeah, I use boron a lot at my house, although not really directly 🙂

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