It also promised economies of scale that would render marsh mining of ulexite obsolete. |
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The alternative, calcium hexaborate pentahydrate, is called colemanite and is much less soluble than ulexite. |
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Boron never occurs as a free element, but always as a compound in minerals such as borax, colemanite, and ulexite. |
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Those who went had five stops on the trip and collected celestine, ulexite, malachite, duftite, alunite, rosasite, barite, cerussite, smithsonite, and wulfenite. |
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In 1849 cottonball received the mineral name ulexite, for the German chemist Georg Ulex who first described its properties when he examined some specimens from Chile. |
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Boron ores are mined to extract minerals such as colemanite, kernite, tincal, and ulexite. |
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