Turkish company: boron products may help narrow ozone hole

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ANKARA, May 26 (Xinhua) -- A Turkish technology firm stated onMonday that its boron products might narrow the ozone hole, thesemi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
"The products manufactured using boron minerals decreased theamount of exhaust gas released by motor vehicles by 15 percent,thus making the hole on the ozone layer getting smaller," GeneralManager of NNT Nano Teknoloji A.S. Mehmet Can Arvas was quoted assaying.
Arvas said the world-wide known technical supervision authority TUVand the German research institute BAM have approved and registeredhis company's products.
"If Turkey's boron products are used in the vehicles all over theworld, the hole in the ozone layer will getting smaller in 20years," Arvas said, adding "Boron minerals will play a key role inthe preservation of human health."
According to the report, the importance of boron, which is widelyused in industries ranging from detergent industry to glassindustry, would increase as hydrogen fuelled motor vehicles areintroduced.
Boron, a semi-metallic element, exhibits some properties of metalas well as of non-metal. Turkey has almost 72 percent of theworld's boron potential and boron reserves.