Borax is probably the best known compound of boron.
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Borax
//ˈbɔː.ɹæks//
Synonyms for "borax" (5 found)
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43 translations across 32 languages.
Acehnese
1 entries- peuja noun (crystalline salt)
Albanian
1 entries- boraks noun (crystalline salt)
Arabic
1 entries- بَوْرَق noun (crystalline salt)
Armenian
1 entries- բորակ noun (crystalline salt)
Burmese
1 entries- လက်ချား noun (crystalline salt)
Catalan
1 entries- bòrax noun (crystalline salt)
Esperanto
1 entries- borakso noun (crystalline salt)
Estonian
1 entries- booraks noun (crystalline salt)
Finnish
2 entries- booraksi noun (crystalline salt)
- booraksi noun ((chemistry) Na2B4O7)
French
2 entries- borax noun (crystalline salt)
- borax noun ((chemistry) Na2B4O7)
German
1 entries- Borax noun (crystalline salt)
Hindi
1 entries- सुहागा noun (crystalline salt)
Hungarian
1 entries- bórax noun (crystalline salt)
Ido
1 entries- sodoborato noun (crystalline salt)
Indonesian
4 entries- bleng noun (crystalline salt)
- boraks noun (crystalline salt)
- cetitet noun (crystalline salt)
- pijer noun (crystalline salt)
Irish
2 entries- bórás noun (crystalline salt)
- bórás noun ((chemistry) Na2B4O7)
Italian
1 entries- borace noun (crystalline salt)
Japanese
2 entries- ホウ砂 noun (crystalline salt)
- 硼砂 noun (crystalline salt)
Javanese
2 entries- bleng noun (crystalline salt)
- cetitèt noun (crystalline salt)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- бура noun (crystalline salt)
Latin
1 entries- santerna noun (crystalline salt)
Persian
1 entries- بوره noun (crystalline salt)
Polish
2 entries- boraks noun (crystalline salt)
- boraks noun ((chemistry) Na2B4O7)
Portuguese
1 entries- bórax noun (crystalline salt)
Romanian
2 entries- borat de sodiu noun (crystalline salt)
- borax noun (crystalline salt)
Russian
1 entries- бура́ noun (crystalline salt)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- boraks noun (crystalline salt)
Spanish
2 entries- borraj noun (crystalline salt)
- bórax noun (crystalline salt)
Sundanese
1 entries- pijer noun (crystalline salt)
Tagalog
1 entries- pinse noun (crystalline salt)
Turkish
1 entries- boraks noun (crystalline salt)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hàn the noun (crystalline salt)
Sample sentences
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Boron was first isolated from borax.
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The principal chemical preservatives used in the curing of meats are borax and boric acid and sulfite of soda.
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“The best way to clean the machine is to put a pound of borax and a gallon of vinegar in the machine and run the longest, hottest cycle you have,” he says.
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