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Boric

Boric \Bo"ric\, a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron.

Boric acid, a white crystalline substance B(OH)3, easily obtained from its salts, and occurring in solution in the hot lagoons of Tuscany.

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boric

a. (context chemistry English) Of, pertaining to, or containing the element boron.

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boric

adj. of or relating to or derived from or containing boron; "boric acid" [syn: boracic]

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Boric (disambiguation)

Boric most often refers to boric acid, a weak acid of boron, and less commonly to boron derivatives: Boron trioxide (boric oxide) and Borate (boric ester). Boric, ''' may also refer to:

People
  • Ban Borić ( fl. 1154-1167), Ban of Bosnia
  • Anthony Boric, New Zeelandic rugby player
  • Thomas Boric, known as Paul Diamond, retired professional wrestler
  • Drazen Boric, German paralympic
  • Sanel Borić (born 1987), American soccer player
  • Nevenka Borić, Croatian Righteous Among the Nations
  • Bojana Borić, Miss Serbia 2008
Placenames
  • Boriç i Vogël, Albania
  • Boriç i Madh, Albania
  • a peak in the Crni Vrh (Brod) mountain in Kosovo

Usage examples of "boric".

If you want to kill them, have some diatomaceous earth or boric acid waiting on the fabric, but be careful, these compounds are poisonous.

Captain Isbell had been up all night working out new attack techniques to smother U-boats that tried to fight it out, and to such good purpose that U-664 was bombed helpless and the crew abandoned ship, leaving 44 floating survivors for Boric to pick up.

At 0200 November 1, Boric blew a different submarine, U-405, to the surface by a shower of depth charges.

He wanted to pour out to her in torrents of self-pity all his unbearable loneliness and despair and warn her never to leave the boric acid or the aspirin in reach of the children or to cross a street against the traffic light.

Then he checked his first-aid kit for bandage roll, tourniquet, sterile gauze compress, one-shot antirabies serum, boric acid solution.

Joan was 13 and Sugar Foot still getting regular eye doses of boric acid, and Ann Drew just out of the boric acid period, and so on up the line, when the Fair Calantha, as was her custom from time immemorial, started on safari via New York to Milford, Penna.

She washed their eyes with boric acid and Argyrol, to prevent infection.

The vet prescribed antibiotics and showed Linda how to clean the eye with a cotton ball and a solution of boric acid.

He explained that according to their up-time books, Tuscany had become a great producer of boric acid, and that it could be used to make tincal available to Europe at a much lower price than had been the case, breaking the Venetian monopoly.

In one case the pleural cavity was washed out with a five per cent solution of boric acid and was followed by distressing symptoms, vomiting, weak pulse, erythema, and death on the third day.

Then he checked his first-aid kit for bandage roll, tourniquet, sterile gauze compress, one-shot antirabies serum, boric acid solution.

Boric acid is one of the most effective and safest ways to bait cockroaches and can also be used for ants, crickets, Silverfish, termites and caterpillars.

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.

If you want to kill them, have some diatomaceous earth or boric acid waiting on the fabric, but be careful, these compounds are poisonous.

To make it, you needed boric acid, or one of the borate salts, such as borax.