What Color is Borinium?

I haven't heard of a metal called Borinium and couldn't find a definition in the Dictionary. Where
did the reference come from? Keith

"Kenny Lee" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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Want to buy a seatpost that has as one of its color options "Borinium." I know it's a metal but
what color is it?

Kenny Lee

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Kenny Lee said:

Want to buy a seatpost that has as one of its color options "Borinium." I know it's a metal but
what color is it?

Kenny Lee

That is not only not a metal, that's not even an element. Boron is a semi-conductor, apparently
somewhat similar in properties to silicon, and bromine is a brown, liquid element (at least at STP,
my recollection is that it verges on being a gas in most real-world room temperatures).

There's also Bohrium, colour listed as "unknown, but probably metallic and silvery white or grey in
appearance" according to this site:

webelements.comkey.htmlOpen ↗

"Unknown" because it has a very short half-life, and has never been made in quantities large enough
to be seen normally.

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In article said:

Want to buy a seatpost that has as one of its color options "Borinium." I know it's a metal but
what color is it?

Ask the marketing geeks, not the engineers or the artists.

Tom Gibb <[email hidden]

Kenny Lee said:

Want to buy a seatpost that has as one of its color options "Borinium." I know it's a metal but
what color is it?

Same color as "marketeerium," a little lighter than "unobtanium."

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On Sun, 02 Mar 2003 21:48:19 +0800, Kenny Lee did issue forth:

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Want to buy a seatpost that has as one of its color options "Borinium." I know it's a metal but
what color is it?

It's a dark grey colour. I guess X-lite thought it sounded good. There's a picture of a Boronium
seat clamp here:

x-lite.comseatclamp.htmOpen ↗

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It's ever so slightly less silvery than Oakley's Unobtanium

Huw Pritchard said:

On Sun, 02 Mar 2003 21:48:19 +0800, Kenny Lee did issue forth:

Quoted message said:

Want to buy a seatpost that has as one of its color options "Borinium." I know it's a metal but
what color is it?

It's a dark grey colour. I guess X-lite thought it sounded good. There's a picture of a Boronium
seat clamp here:

x-lite.comseatclamp.htmOpen ↗

Thanks, Kenny Lee

Kenny Lee said:

Want to buy a seatpost that has as one of its color options "Borinium." I know it's a metal but
what color is it?

Very close to the color of metallic dilithium, which is quite rare. It's much more commonly found in
its crystalline form. For more information see:

thasos.ukgateway.netdilithium.htmOpen ↗

jeverett3<AT>earthlink<DOT>net home.earthlink.net~jeverett3Open ↗