Meaning of Borax | Babel Free
ˈbɔː.ɹæksDefinitions
- 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.
- The sodium salt of boric acid, Na₂B₄O₇, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallization; sodium tetraborate.
- Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.
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Examples
““The best way to clean⟳ the machine is to put⟳ a pound of borax and a gallon of vinegar in the machine and run⟳ the longest, hottest cycle you have⟳,” he says.”
“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.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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