English Dictionary

borax

名詞

不可算名詞 通常 限定用法 時々

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.

日本語の意味

ホウ砂：白色または灰色の結晶性塩で、ややアルカリ性の風味を持ち、はんだ付けの助剤、エナメルの製造、磁器の着色固定、石鹸など多用途に使用される物質。

I kept a small jar of borax on the shelf for laundry and cleaning tasks.

洗濯や掃除用に、白または灰色の鉱物であるホウ砂の小さな瓶を棚に置いていました。

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

(chemistry) The sodium salt of boric acid, Na₂B₄O₇, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate.

意味（3）

(sometimes attributive) Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.

Furniture isn't made to last thirty years or longer because they took a survey and found that young homemakers like to throw their furniture out and bring in all new, color-coded borax every seven years.

boraxes （ plural ）

boraces （ plural ）