noun Download 🔗Share 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. Examples : "The artist used borax to fix the colors on the porcelain doll's dress. " compound substance material chemistry industry Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate. Examples : "My mom uses borax in the laundry to help boost the cleaning power of the detergent. " substance chemistry compound material Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (sometimes attributive) Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design. Examples : "The apartment's "modern" furniture was mostly borax: particleboard tables and plastic chairs that looked cheap and wouldn't last. " style art item appearance quality material Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading