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