borax

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 2)  The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallization; sodium tetraborate.
 * 3)  Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.

Synonyms

 * when used as a preservative

Translations

 * Acehnese: peuja
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: بَوْرَق
 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: bòrax
 * Esperanto: borakso
 * Estonian: booraks
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Borax
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:, bleng, pijer, cetitet
 * Irish: bórás
 * Italian: borace
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: bleng, cetitèt
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin: santerna
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: bórax
 * Romanian:, borat de sodiu
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sundanese: pijer
 * Tagalog: pinse
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Irish: bórás
 * Polish:

Verb

 * 1)  To treat with borax.

Etymology
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