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Borax vs Cornstarch - What's the difference?

borax | cornstarch |

As nouns the difference between borax and cornstarch

is that 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 while cornstarch is a very fine starch powder derived from corn (maize) used in cooking as a thickener, to keep things from sticking, or as an anti-caking agent.

As an adjective borax

is cheap or tawdry, referring to furniture or other works of industrial design.

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

    cornstarch

    English

    Alternative forms

    * cornflour (UK)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A very fine starch powder derived from corn (maize) used in cooking as a thickener, to keep things from sticking, or as an anti-caking agent.

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "cornstarch")