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noun
A 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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noun
The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallization.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: chemistry, inorganic-chemistry, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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Synonyms: sodium tetraborate, mul:E285
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: borate, compound, substance, stuff
noun
Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, sometimes, uncountable, usually
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verb
To treat with borax.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
an ore of boron consisting of hydrated sodium borate; used as a flux or cleansing agent
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: mineral
History
Etymology tree Middle Persian *bōragbor. Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq)der. Medieval Latin boraxder. Anglo-Norman boreisbor. Middle English boras English borax From Middle English boras, from Anglo-Norman boreis, from Medieval Latin borax, baurach (“borax”), from Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq), from Middle Persian bwlk' (bōrag), which yielded Persian بوره (bure).
Across languages
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