borax

n. 硼砂 [化] 硼砂

发音

其它 /ˈbɔː.ɹæks/
US /ˈbɔɹ.æks/

词形变化

boraces boraxes 复数 boraxes boraces 复数 boraxed boraxes 三单 boraxing boraxing 现在分词 boraxed 过去式 boraxed 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

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  2. 2.

    The sodium salt of boric acid, Na₂B₄O₇, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallization; sodium tetraborate.

    不可数 化学
  3. 3.

    Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.

    定语 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To treat with borax.

    及物

词汇关系

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词源

Etymology tree Middle Persian *bōragbor. Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq)der. Medieval Latin boraxder. Anglo-Norman boreisbor. Middle English boras English borax From Middle English boras, from Anglo-Norman boreis, from Medieval Latin borax, baurach (“borax”), from Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq), from Middle Persian bwlk' (bōrag), which yielded Persian بوره (bure).

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