tincalconite

As nouns the difference between borax and tincalconite

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 tincalconite is a hydrous sodium borate mineral closely related to borax.

As an adjective borax

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

As nouns the difference between mineral and tincalconite

is that mineral is any naturally occurring inorganic material that has a (more or less) definite chemical composition and characteristic physical properties while tincalconite is a hydrous sodium borate mineral closely related to borax.

As an adjective mineral

is of, related to, or containing minerals.

As nouns the difference between borate and tincalconite

is that borate is while tincalconite is (mineralogy) a hydrous sodium borate mineral closely related to borax.

As nouns the difference between sodium and tincalconite

is that sodium is a soft, waxy, silvery reactive metal that is never found unbound in nature, and a chemical element (symbol Na) with an atomic number of 11 and atomic weight of 22.98977 while tincalconite is a hydrous sodium borate mineral closely related to borax.

As an adjective hydrous

is (chemistry) containing combined water; hydrated.

As a noun tincalconite is

(mineralogy) a hydrous sodium borate mineral closely related to borax.