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Significado de borax

n.

Bórax.

n.

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, Na2B4O
10H2O.

n.

mineral generic term

Vogais: oa

Consoantes: brx

Palavras Parecidas

braxy, borage, borago, borgia, boracic, borrage, brag, breakax, bureaux, boracous.