Borax Definition

bôrăks, -əks
noun
Sodium borate, a white, anhydrous, crystalline salt, Na2B4O7, with an alkaline taste, used as a flux in soldering metals and in the manufacture of glass, enamel, artificial gems, soaps, antiseptics, etc.
Webster's New World
Cheap, poorly made merchandise, esp. furniture.
Webster's New World
adjective
Cheap or tawdry, referring to furniture or other works of industrial design.
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Origin of Borax

  • Middle English from Medieval Latin bōrāx from Arabic būraq from Middle Persian būrak Sense 2, perhaps from the custom of giving away borax soap as a premium for the sale of cheap furniture

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English boras, from Anglo-Norman boreis, from Medieval Latin baurach (“borax”), from Arabic بورق (báuraq), from Middle Persian (būrak). Compare Persian بوره (bure).

    From Wiktionary

Borax Sentence Examples

  • Among the principal varieties are those which contain carbolic acid and other ingredients of coal tar, salicylic acid, petroleum, borax, camphor, iodine, mercurial salts, sulphur and tannin.

  • Ruthenium sulphides are obtained when the metal is warmed with pyrites and some borax, and the fused mass treated with hydrochloric acid first in the cold and then hot.

  • Cobalt salts may be readily detected by the formation of the black sulphide, in alkaline solution, and by the blue colour they produce when fused with borax.

  • Boron nitride BN is formed when boron is burned either in air or in nitrogen, but can be obtained more readily by heating to redness in a platinum crucible a mixture of one part of anhydrous borax with two parts of dry ammonium chloride.

  • The trade of the city is principally in Bolivian products - mineral ores, alpaca wool, &c. - but it also receives and exports the products of the neighbouring Peruvian provinces, and the output of the borax deposits in the neighbourhood.

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