borax
Noun
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Noun
borax (uncountable)
- 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.
- (chemistry) The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate.
- (sometimes, attributive) Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.
- 1977, Harlan Ellison, Jeffty is Five
- Furniture isn't made to last thirty years or longer because they took a survey and found that young homemakers like to throw their furniture out and bring in all new, color-coded borax every seven years.
- 1977, Harlan Ellison, Jeffty is Five
- E285 when used as a preservative
- French: borax
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