noun🔗Share硼砂，月石砂 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. "这位艺术家用硼砂来固定瓷娃娃裙子上的颜色。compoundsubstancematerialchemistryindustryChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share硼砂 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. "我妈妈在洗衣服的时候会用硼砂，这样能增强洗衣粉的清洁效果。substancechemistrycompoundmaterialChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun🔗Share劣质家具，俗气的设计 (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. "这间公寓里“现代”家具大多是劣质货：刨花板桌子和塑料椅子，看起来很廉价，而且肯定不耐用。styleartitemappearancequalitymaterialChat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
