noun🔗ShareBóraxA 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. "El artista usó bórax para fijar los colores en el vestido de la muñeca de porcelana.compoundsubstancematerialchemistryindustryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareBóraxThe 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. "Mi madre usa bórax en la colada para ayudar a aumentar el poder de limpieza del detergente.substancechemistrycompoundmaterialChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗ShareMobiliario barato o de mal gusto u otras obras de diseño industrial(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. "Los muebles "modernos" del apartamento eran en su mayoría de mal gusto: mesas de aglomerado y sillas de plástico que parecían baratas y no durarían mucho.styleartitemappearancequalitymaterialChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
