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Summary: Sir Humphry Davy, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thenard first discovered boron in 1808. Interesting Facts About Boron. 1  There are 2 stable isotopes of boron (boron-10 and boron-11).  Turkey and the United States are the worldâs largest producers of boron.
These early uses echo in borax's (and ultimately, boron's) name: The word is from the Arabic buraq, or white. However, the element itself was not extracted until 1808, according to the Royal Society of Chemistry.Even then, chemists weren't able to get a pure form of boron. Boron may have been the key to the evolution of life on Earth. 2  The element stabilizes ribose, part of RNA, the self-assembling molecule that may have preceded DNA. ( 3 Viruses are essentially roving RNA strands.) A June 2014 study found that boron is present in the oldest rocks on Earth, which date back 3.8 billion years.