What is borax?

Answer 1

Borax (from Persian burah), also called sodium borate, or sodium tetraborate, or disodium tetraborate, is an important boron compound, a mineral, and a salt of boric acid. It is usually a white powder consisting of soft colorless crystals that dissolve easily in water.

Borax has a wide variety of uses. It is a component of many detergents, cosmetics, and enamel glazes. It is also used to make buffer solutions in biochemistry, as a fire retardant, as an anti-fungal compound for fiberglass, as an insecticide, as a flux in metallurgy, and as a precursor for other boron compounds.

The term borax is used for a number of closely related minerals or chemical compounds that differ in their crystal water content, but usually refers to the decahydrate. Commercially sold borax is usually partially dehydrated.

Answer 2

Borax (from Persian burah[1][2]), also called sodium borate, or sodium tetraborate, or disodium tetraborate, is an important boron compound, a mineral, and a salt of boric acid. It is usually a white powder consisting of soft colorless crystals that dissolve easily in water.

Borax has a wide variety of uses. It is a component of many detergents, cosmetics, and enamel glazes. It is also used to make buffer solutions in biochemistry, as a fire retardant, as an anti-fungal compound for fiberglass, as an insecticide, as a flux in metallurgy, and as a precursor for other boron compounds.

The term borax is used for a number of closely related minerals or chemical compounds that differ in their crystal water content, but usually refers to the decahydrate. Commercially sold borax is usually partially dehydrated.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borax

Answer 3

Borax also called sodium borate, or sodium tetraborate, or disodium tetraborate, is an important boron compound, a mineral, and a salt of boric acid. It is usually a white powder consisting of soft colorless crystals that dissolve easily in water.

Here is detailed info at Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borax

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Answer 4

Borax (from Persian burah[1][2]), also called sodium borate, or sodium tetraborate, or disodium tetraborate, is an important boron compound, a mineral, and a salt of boric acid. It is usually a white powder consisting of soft colorless crystals that dissolve easily in water.

Borax has a wide variety of uses. It is a component of many detergents, cosmetics, and enamel glazes. It is also used to make buffer solutions in biochemistry, as a fire retardant, as an anti-fungal compound for fiberglass, as an insecticide, as a flux in metallurgy, and as a precursor for other boron compounds.

The term borax is used for a number of closely related minerals or chemical compounds that differ in their crystal water content, but usually refers to the decahydrate. Commercially sold borax is usually partially dehydrated.

Answer 5

http://www.galleries.com/minerals/carbonat/borax/borax.jpg

Answer 6

borax is a bleach like detergent. we use it in science class to make crystals, SLIME, and a lot of other things!! it is a very cool product!

Answer 7

It's a cleaner like Clorox. It's a powder

Answer 8

detergent i believe, that could be used in cosmetics, foods, insecticide, ink, cleaning laundry and such.
you could also try this project by mixing borax with glue and making slime-ish material.

Answer 9

It is excellent for cleaning. You can combine it with white wine vinegar and lemon juice and it cleans to perfection. If you keep the above in your cleaning cupboard you will pretty much never need anything else!!

Answer 10

a powder or rock left behind from a volcano eruption,
its gritty white sand,