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Borax vs Sodiumbenzoate - What's the difference?

borax | sodiumbenzoate |

Sodiumbenzoate is likely misspelled.


Sodiumbenzoate has no English definition.

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.

As an adjective borax

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

borax

English

(wikipedia borax)

Noun

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  • 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

    sodiumbenzoate

    Not English

    Sodiumbenzoate has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

    English words similar to 'sodiumbenzoate':

    schadenfreude, swedenborgite, stannofluoride