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Borax   /bˈɔrˌæks/   Listen
Borax

noun
(pl. boraces)
1.
An ore of boron consisting of hydrated sodium borate; used as a flux or cleansing agent.





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"Borax" Quotes from Famous Books



... the powders No. 6 every other night; in the intervals a dessertspoonful of the mixture No. 18 three times a day; white spots to be dressed with the honey of borax. ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous
... bottle of wine that they called champagne. Death drank it up. They brought a newspaper and looked up the patent medicines; they gave him the foods that it recommended for invalids, and a little medicine as prescribed in the paper. They gave him some milk and borax, such as ...
— Fifty-One Tales • Lord Dunsany [Edward J. M. D. Plunkett]


Words linked to "Borax" :   mineral, b, boron, atomic number 5


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