Chemistry:Trisodium orthoborate

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Trisodium orthoborate
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Names
IUPAC name
Trisodium orthoborate
Other names
  • Sodium, boric acid salt
  • Sodium orthoborate
  • Sodium borate
Identifiers
3D model (JSmol)
ChEMBL
ChemSpider
117865
Properties
Na
3
BO
3
Molar mass 127.78 g·mol−1
Density 1.73 g/cm3[1]
Melting point 75 °C (167 °F; 348 K) [1]
Boiling point 320 °C (608 °F; 593 K) [1]
Hazards
GHS pictograms GHS07: HarmfulGHS08: Health hazard
GHS Signal word Warning
H319, H360, H361d, H412
P203Script error: No such module "Preview warning".Category:GHS errors, P264+265Script error: No such module "Preview warning".Category:GHS errors, P273, P280, P305+351+338, P318Script error: No such module "Preview warning".Category:GHS errors, P337+317Script error: No such module "Preview warning".Category:GHS errors, P405, P501
Related compounds
Related compounds
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Trisodium borate is a chemical compound of sodium, boron, and oxygen, with formula Na
3
BO
3
, or (Na+
)
3
[BO
3
]3−
.[3] It is a sodium salt of the orthoboric acid B(OH)
3
.

The compound is also called trisodium orthoborate, sodium orthoborate, or just sodium borate. However, "sodium orthoborate" has been used also for a compound with formula Na
4
B
2
O
5
, which would correspond to an equimolar mixture of sodium metaborate NaBO
2
and trisodium borate proper.[4] and "sodium borate" is sometimes used in the generic sense, for a sodium salt with any of several other borate anions.

Preparation

Sodium carbonate Na
2
CO
3
will react with sodium metaborate NaBO
2
or boric oxide B
2
O
3
to form the orthoborate and carbon dioxide when heated between 600 and 850 °C:[3]

NaBO
2
+ Na
2
CO
3
→ Na
3
BO
3
+ CO
2

Difficult to obtain in pure form from melts.[5]

Properties

Reactions

When dissolved in water, the orthoborate anion partially hydrolyzes into metaborate [BO
2
]
and hydroxide OH
:[3]

[BO
3
]3− + H
2
O ⇌ [BO
2
]
+ 3 OH

Electrolysis of a solution of sodium orthoborate generates sodium perborate at the anode.[6] [7]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Trisodium borate" Product page in the World Of Chemicals website. Accessed on 2022-06-27.
  2. "Boric acid, sodium salt" (in en). https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/159383#section=Safety-and-Hazards. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Pasupathy Rajan Subbaiyan (2003): "Study of Trisodium Borate Formation and Its Reaction with Green Liquor in Partial Autocausticizing". Masters Thesis, Western Michigan University.
  4. Daniel L. Calabretta and Boyd R. Davis (2007) "Investigation of the anhydrous molten Na–B–O–H system and the concept: Electrolytic hydriding of sodium boron oxide species". Journal of Power Sources, volume 164, issue 2, pages 782-791. doi:10.1016/j.jpowsour.2006.11.023
  5. G. W. Morey and H. E. Merwin (1936): "Phase Equilibrium Relationships in the Binary System, Sodium Oxide-Boric Oxide, with Some Measurements of the Optical Properties of the Glasses". Journal of the American Chemical Society, volume 58, issue 11, pages 2248–2254. doi:10.1021/ja01302a04
  6. Wilfrid Gustav Polack (1915): "The anodic behaviour of alkaline borate and perborate solutions". Transactions of the Faraday Society, volume 10, pages 177-196. doi:10.1039/TF9151000177
  7. Tanatar (1898): Zh. Pys. Chem., volume 26, page 132.