What Color is Borinium?

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

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" <kentw@ksts.seed.net.tw> wrote in message news:b3t22u$f2j$1@news.seed.net.tw...
> 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

In article <b3t22u$f2j$1@news.seed.net.tw>,
Kenny Lee <kentw@ksts.seed.net.tw> wrote:

> 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:

http://www.webelements.com/webelemen...xt/Bh/key.html

"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 <b3t22u$f2j$1@news.seed.net.tw>, Kenny Lee <kentw@ksts.seed.net.tw> writes:

>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 <TBGibb@aol.com

Kenny Lee wrote:
> 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."

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

> 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:

http://www.x-lite.com/seatclamp.htm

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

Huw Pritchard wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Mar 2003 21:48:19 +0800, Kenny Lee did issue forth:
>
>
>>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:
>
> http://www.x-lite.com/seatclamp.htm
>

Thanks, Kenny Lee

On Sun, 02 Mar 2003 21:48:19 +0800, Kenny Lee <kentw@ksts.seed.net.tw> wrote:

>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:

http://www.thasos.ukgateway.net/holdfast/dilithium.htm

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