boraxˈbɔr æks, -əks, ˈboʊr-; ˈbɔr əˌsiz, ˈboʊr-
borax (n)
- plural
- boraxes
English Definitions:
borax (noun)
an ore of boron consisting of hydrated sodium borate; used as a flux or cleansing agent
borax (Noun)
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.
borax (Noun)
The sodium salt of boric acid, NaBO, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate.
borax (Adjective)
Cheap or tawdry, referring to furniture or other works of industrial design.
Borax
Borax, also known as sodium borate, sodium tetraborate, or disodium tetraborate, is an important boron compound, a mineral, and a salt of boric acid. Powdered borax is white, consisting of soft colorless crystals that dissolve easily in water. Borax has a wide variety of uses. It is a component of many detergents, cosmetics, and enamel glazes. It is also used to make buffer solutions in biochemistry, as a fire retardant, as an anti-fungal compound for fiberglass, as a flux in metallurgy, neutron-capture shields for radioactive sources, a texturing agent in cooking, and as a precursor for other boron compounds. In artisanal gold mining, the borax method is sometimes used as a substitute for toxic mercury in the gold extraction process. Borax was reportedly used by gold miners in parts of the Philippines in the 1900s. The term borax is used for a number of closely related minerals or chemical compounds that differ in their crystal water content, but usually refers to the decahydrate. Commercially sold borax is usually partially dehydrated. The word borax is from Arabic būraq, meaning "white"; which is indeed from Middle Persian bwrk, which might have meant potassium nitrate or another fluxing agent, now known as būrah. Another name for borax is tincal, from Sanskrit.
Borax
The BORAX Experiments were a series of safety experiments on boiling water nuclear reactors conducted by Argonne National Laboratory in the 1950s and 1960s at the National Reactor Testing Station in eastern Idaho. They were performed using the five BORAX reactors that were designed and built by Argonne. BORAX-III was the first nuclear reactor to supply electrical power to the grid in the United States in 1955.
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