different between boracic vs borax

English

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin borax (genitive boracis), itself via Arabic ???????? (bawraq), from Persian ????? (b?ra).

Adjective

boracic (not comparable)

1. Relating to, or impregnated with borax.
2. (dated, inorganic chemistry) Synonym of boric.

Derived terms

• boracic acid
• boracic lint
• boracite

Translations

Etymology 2

Shortened from boracic lint (“skint”).

Alternative forms

• brassic

Adjective

boracic (comparative more boracic, superlative most boracic)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) penniless

Synonyms

• broke
• skint (British)
• See also Thesaurus:impoverished

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• braccio

English

Etymology

From Middle English boras, from Anglo-Norman boreis, from Medieval Latin baurach (“borax”), from Arabic ???????? (bawraq), from Middle Persian bwlk' (b?rag), which yielded Persian ????? (bure).

Noun

borax (uncountable)

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.
2. (chemistry) The sodium salt of boric acid, Na₂B₄O₇, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate.
3. (sometimes attributive) Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.
   • 1977, Harlan Ellison, Jeffty is Five

     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.

Synonyms

• E285 when used as a preservative

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Borax”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
• “borax”, in Mindat.org?^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
• borax at the Free Dictionary

Romanian

Etymology

From French borax

Noun

borax n (uncountable)

1. borax

Declension