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Borate vs Borax - What's the difference?

borate | borax |

As nouns the difference between borate and borax

is that borate is while borax is borax.

borate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.

    • Derived terms

    * aluminium borate * caesium borate, cesium borate * fluoborate * hydroborate * hydroboration * orthoborate * perborate * silico-borate, silicoborate * sodium terbium borate * tetraborate * triborate * tungstoborate

    Related terms

    * boron

    Anagrams

    * ----

    borax

    English

    (wikipedia borax)

    Noun

    (-)
  • 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.
  • (chemistry) The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate.

    • Synonyms

    * when used as a preservative

    Derived terms

    * borax bead test * boracic * borise, borize * boron

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Cheap or tawdry, referring to furniture or other works of industrial design.

    • References

    * borax at the Free Dictionary