Plural of boride; multiple chemical compounds formed between boron and other elements.
Standard English plural of 'boride', formed by adding '-s' to the singular noun form.
The family of borides is like a materials laboratory—different borides have wildly different properties, so scientists can engineer something hard, or something heat-resistant, or something conductive, depending on what's bonded to the boron.
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