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(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, Na2B4O7.10H2O.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Borax'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/borax.html. 1828.
 
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