Borax

Definitions

1. 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.
   uncountable, usually
2. The sodium salt of boric acid, Na₂B₄O₇, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallization; sodium tetraborate.
   uncountable, usually
3. Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.
   attributive, sometimes, uncountable, usually

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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.”

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