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borax
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noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ E1 was in the kitchen, sweeping borax into a dustpan. ▪ He had scrubbed the kitchen floor, cleaned the stove, and was sprinkling borax around the edges of the room. ▪ If this is the cause try spraying the trees at petal fall ...
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n. an ore of boron consisting of hydrated sodium borate; used as a flux or cleansing agent [also: boraces (pl)]
Usage examples of borax.
So inventing by the light of inner consciousness alone, he worked up tiny doses of the grey ambergris into mutton fat, coloured it faintly pink with cochineal insects he caught on the prickly pear hedges, added a little crude borax as a preservative, and so produced a cosmetic that was no better and little worse than the thousand other nostrums of its kind in daily use elsewhere.
These include the tungsten-bearing scheelite, halite, calcite, hydrozincite, types of borax, colemanite and many others.
A solution made with borax, two drachms, and morphine, fire grains, dissolved in six ounces of rose-water, makes an excellent lotion to allay the itching.
The product is fused with more arsenic under a slag, consisting mainly of borax.
If the separated sulphide be heated in a borax bead, the colour obtained will be a sherry brown in the outer flame, and grey or colourless in the inner flame if nickel only is present.
The buttons of bullion obtained are afterwards remelted with borax and run into bars, the fineness of which varies from 600 to 830 thousandths.
Or, if the cupellation loss is neglected or calculated in some other manner, the slag or slags from the scorifier may be powdered and mixed with 20 grams of oxide of lead, 5 grams of borax, and 1 gram of charcoal.
If the scorifier at the end of an operation is more than usually corroded, the borax should be replaced in subsequent assays on similar ores by powdered glass or quartz.
Or, if the cupellation loss is neglected or calculated in some other manner, the slag or slags from the scorifier may be powdered and mixed with 20 grams of oxide of lead, 5 grams of borax, and 1 gram of charcoal.
Take 80 grams of litharge and 20 grams of a mixture of borax and soda.
Borax struggled to swing a gumwood desk tray in front of him, and patted it to indicate Carter should upend the sack there.
They make everything from a fancy model that just about surfs itself down to their cheap-o borax model, which you wind up with a big key.
Martins and finches, goatskins and ram skins, dates, filberts, walnuts, salted sturgeon tails, round pepper, ginger, saffron, cloves, nutmegs, spike, cardamoms, scammony, manna, lac, zedoary, incense, quicksilver, copper, amber, pounding pearls, borax, gum arabic, sweetmeats, gold wire, wines, dragon's blood rubies, loaded dice, and beautiful dancing girls.
There was no mercury, sulphur, or litharge, No borax, ceruse, tartar, could discharge, Nor ointment that could cleanse enough, or bite, To free him of his boils and pimples white, Nor of the bosses resting on his cheeks.
Of the chemicals tested, only borax and boric acid could be used at a level high enough to delay the growth of contaminants and still not interfere with penicillin production.