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• borax — borax1 /bawr aks, euhks, bohr /, n., pl. boraxes, boraces /bawr euh seez , bohr /. a white, water soluble powder or crystals, hydrated sodium borate, Na2B4O7·10H2O, occurring naturally or obtained from naturally occurring borates; tincal: used as …   Universalium

• Borax — Bo rax, n. [OE. boras, fr. F. borax, earlier spelt borras; cf. LL. borax, Sp. borraj; all fr. Ar. b?rag, fr. Pers. b?rah.] A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Borax bead — Borax Bo rax, n. [OE. boras, fr. F. borax, earlier spelt borras; cf. LL. borax, Sp. borraj; all fr. Ar. b?rag, fr. Pers. b?rah.] A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• borax — late 14c., from Anglo French boras, from M.L. baurach, from Arabic buraq, applied by the Arabs to various substances used as fluxes, probably from Pers. burah. Originally obtained in Europe from the bed of a salt lake in Tibet …   Etymology dictionary

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• boron — boronic /boh ron ik, baw , beuh /, adj. /bawr on, bohr /, n. Chem. a nonmetallic element occurring naturally only in combination, as in borax or boric acid, and obtained in either an amorphous or a crystalline form when reduced from its compounds …   Universalium