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Borax vs Boraciferous - What's the difference?

borax | boraciferous |

As adjectives the difference between borax and boraciferous

is that borax is cheap or tawdry, referring to furniture or other works of industrial design while boraciferous is yielding or containing borax.

As a noun borax

is 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.

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

    boraciferous

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Yielding or containing borax.