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B

Boron

Z 
5
Mass 
10.81
Lifeforce 
Air

It washes clothes, hardens steel, kills fungi — and dates from before the galaxies. No star ever forged boron: it was born where cosmic rays collide. A handful of its crystals can be harder than diamond.

Kites and birds weave a bridge of threads between two hills.
Plate · Air Air never keeps to itself — it connects what two hills hold apart.

Boron. Element five. Hardens steel, kills fungi, washes clothes. A handful of its crystals can be harder than diamond. Forged not in stars but in cosmic ray collisions — a wanderer from before there were galaxies.

Lab note · Atomic number 5; not formed in stars, but in collisions of cosmic rays.