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borax

noun / verb

Meaning

  1. nounA white or gray/grey crystalline salt, found in nature as a mineral, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
  2. verbTo treat with borax.
  3. nounThe sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallization.

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