Borax

Quick meaning: Borax is a noun meaning (sometimes attributive) Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.

Meaning

(sometimes attributive) Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To treat with borax.
2. 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.
3. (inorganic chemistry) The sodium salt of boric acid, Na₂B₄O₇, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallization; sodium tetraborate.

Example Sentences

“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.

Word Forms

• boraxes
• boraces
• boraxing
• boraxed

Related Words

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