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usually uncountable, plural boraxes or boraces
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. examples
(chemistry) The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallization; sodium tetraborate. examples
(sometimes attributive) Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design. quotations examples
Furniture isn't made to last thirty years or longer because they took a survey and found that young homemakers like to throw their furniture out and bring in all new, color-coded borax every seven years.
1977, Harlan Ellison, Jeffty is Five
third-person singular simple present boraxes, present participle boraxing, simple past and past participle boraxed
(transitive) To treat with borax. examples