Borox vs. Borax — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Borox and Borax
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Borox
Borox is a municipality located in the province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2006 census (INE), the municipality had a population of 2640 inhabitants.
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.
Borax
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.
Borax
Good-natured teasing or ridicule; banter
They take a bit of borax, but that is part of the job
Borax
A hydrated sodium borate, Na2B4O7·10H2O, an ore of boron, that is used as a cleaning compound.
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Borax
Cheap merchandise, especially tasteless furnishings
"today's glinty borax" (New Yorker).
Borax
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
(chemistry) The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallization; sodium tetraborate.
Borax
Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.
Borax
(transitive) To treat with borax.
Borax
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.
Borax
An ore of boron consisting of hydrated sodium borate; used as a flux or cleansing agent
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