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Definition :

A white or gray crystalline salt with a slight alkaline taste used as a flux in soldering metals making enamels fixing colors on porcelain and as a soap It occurs native in certain mineral springs and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium Na2B4O710H2O