OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 13316

borax

/ˈbɔː.ɹæks/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
borraj • bórax
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.
“The best way to clean the machine is to put a pound of borax and a gallon of vinegar in the machine and run the longest, hottest cycle you have,” he says.
Word forms