Borax vs. Boron

Boraxnoun

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.

Boronnoun

The chemical element (symbol B) with an atomic number of 5, which is a metalloid.

Boraxnoun

(chemistry) The sodium salt of boric acid, Na₂B₄O₇, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate.

Boronnoun

A single atom of this element.

Boraxadjective

Cheap or tawdry, referring to furniture or other works of industrial design.

Boronnoun

A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive color, in a semimetallic form, and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties. It occurs in nature also in boracite, datolite, tourmaline, and some other minerals. Atomic number 5. Atomic weight 10.81. Symbol B.

Boraxnoun

A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineral springs, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany. It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O.

Boronnoun

a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder

Boraxnoun

an ore of boron consisting of hydrated sodium borate; used as a flux or cleansing agent

Boronnoun

the chemical element of atomic number 5, a non-metallic solid.

Boraxnoun

a white compound which occurs as a mineral in some alkaline salt deposits and is used in making glass and ceramics, as a metallurgical flux, and as an antiseptic.

Boron

Boron is a chemical element with the symbol B and atomic number 5. In its crystalline form it is a brittle, dark, lustrous metalloid; in its amorphous form it is a brown powder.

Boraxnoun

good-natured teasing or ridicule; banter

‘they take a bit of borax, but that is part of the job’;

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 in water.