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noun - 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
- (chemistry) the sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate
Translations: adjective - cheap or tawdry, referring to furniture or other works of industrial design
Persian derivations
Etymology: Middle English boras, from Anglo-French boreis, from Medieval Latin borac-, borax, from Arabic bÅraq, from Pahlavi bÅrak, from Persian bÅrah
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