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n. A hydrated sodium borate, Na2B4O7·10H2O, an ore of boron, that is used as a cleaning compound.

n. An anhydrous sodium borate used in the manufacture of glass and various ceramics.

n. Cheap merchandise, especially tasteless furnishings: "today's glinty borax” ( New Yorker).

n. 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.

n. The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate.

adj. Cheap or tawdry, referring to furniture or other works of industrial design.

n. A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.

n. Sodium tetraborate or pyroborate, Na2B4O7 + 10H2O, a salt formed by the union of boracic acid and soda.

n. an ore of boron consisting of hydrated sodium borate; used as a flux or cleansing agent

"Commercially the term borax is sometimes applied to all these materials."

mineral   

honey of borax    burned borax    glass of borax    octahedral borax   

boraces   

boracic    boron    borise    borize    borax bead test   

E285    preservative   

mesothorax    metathorax   

alum    magnesia    turpentine    potash    carbonate    allspice    sulphur    quicklime    nitre    clove