Borax - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: boraxBorax
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...
Boracous
Relating to or obtained from borax containing borax...
Boracic
Pertaining to or produced from borax containing boron boric as boracic acid...
borated
mixed or impregnated with borax...
Boron
A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax It is reduced with difficulty to the free state when it can be obtained in several different forms viz as a substance of a deep olive color in a semimetallic form and in colorless quadratic crystals similar to the diamond in hardness and other properties It occurs in nature also in boracite datolite tourmaline and some other minerals Atomic number 5 Atomic weight 1081 Symbol B...
Dobells solution
An aqueous solution of carbolic acid borax sodium bicarbonate and glycerin used as a spray in diseases of the nose and throat...
Hematinon
A red consisting of silica borax and soda fused with oxide of copper and iron and used in enamels mosaics etc...
Heteromerous
Unrelated in chemical composition though similar or indentical in certain other respects as borax and augite are homoeligmorphous but heteromerous...
Pyroboric
Pertaining to derived from or designating an acid H2B4O7 called also tetraboric acid which is the acid ingredient of ordinary borax and is obtained by heating boric acid...
Scorify
To reduce to scoria or slag specifically in assaying to fuse so as to separate the gangue and earthy material with borax lead soda etc thus leaving the gold and silver in a lead button hence to separate from or by means of a slag...
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