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<p><P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for manufacturing sodium and boron from sodium metaborate by allowing the sodium metaborate to react with at least one reducing agent. <P>SOLUTION: Sodium borohydride is manufactured by a process including (a) a process in which a product mixture containing sodium and boron is formed by allowing the sodium metaborate to react with at least one reducing agent and (b) a process in which sodium borohydride is formed by allowing the sodium and the boron to react with hydrogen. In one embodiment, sodium tetraborate is reduced to sodium and boron by at least one among a hydrocarbon, an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, a transition metal, a metal hydride, Al, Ga, Si or P. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI</p> |