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The team at periodicvideos has created a TED-Ed Lesson for every element of the periodic table. This one is about boron and the green flames it produces.

Boron compounds (particularly perborate) are used in laundry detergent. Persil is a good example of one that contains perborate. But which compound, that can bleach clothes, forms in the washing machine when perborate is mixed with hot water?

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