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What would be the ionic charge on a boron atom necessary to treat it as a hydrogen-like ion?

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The charge on boron atom should be +4. Then B4+ contains only one electron and becomes isoelectronic with hydrogen. Hence B4+ can be treated as hydrogen like ion. For example like H atom, B4+ ion will follow Bohr's theory.

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