Associations to the word «Borax»

Wiktionary

BORAX, noun. A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
BORAX, noun. (chemistry) The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate.
BORAX, adjective. Cheap or tawdry, referring to furniture or other works of industrial design.
BORAX BEAD TEST, noun. (chemistry) in qualitative inorganic analysis, a test for the presence of certain metallic elements by observing the colours given to a bead of borax in a loop of platinum wire held in the oxidizing and reducing parts of a Bunsen burner flame
BORAX BEAD TESTS, noun. Plural of borax bead test

Dictionary definition

BORAX, noun. An ore of boron consisting of hydrated sodium borate; used as a flux or cleansing agent.

Wise words

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