noun🔗Shareホウ砂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."The artist used borax to fix the colors on the porcelain doll's dress. "その芸術家は、陶器の人形のドレスの色を固定するためにホウ砂を使用しました。compoundsubstancematerialchemistryindustryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Shareホウ砂The 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. "母は洗剤の洗浄力を高めるために、洗濯にホウ砂を使います。substancechemistrycompoundmaterialChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share安っぽい、またはけばけばしい家具やその他の工業デザイン作品(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. "アパートの「モダン」な家具は、ほとんどが安っぽいものでした。安っぽく見え、長持ちしないパーティクルボードのテーブルとプラスチックの椅子でした。styleartitemappearancequalitymaterialChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
