Glauber's salt, and from 20 to 40 grains boraxper gallon water.
Therefore (and especially in dyeing light shades on goods manufactured of shoddy) only a small quantity of soda orborax is to be added to the dye-bath and severe boiling is to be avoided.
They took everything off and washed the shelves with warm water and borax and wiped them dry, and put on fresh papers.
A little ammonia or borax in the rinsing water makes them soft and white.
Margaret put a tablespoonful of borax in the water, rung out her cloth, and washed out all the inside of the great box, poking a little stick into the corners, and scrubbing the shelves thoroughly, as well as the sides and bottom.
When iron and copper have to be “brazed,” the joints are made bright, and then coated with borax ground into a paste with water.
In former times articles were inlaid with thin plates of gold, which were placed in hollows made with a graver and melted in, a little borax being applied between.
A solution of borax (twenty grains to eight teaspoonfuls of water) can be applied every two hours with a camel's hair brush.
Also work powdered borax into the carpet wherever there is a sign of moths or under heavy pieces of furniture, which cannot easily be moved in the weekly sweeping.
The honey is very soothing and the borax is a good antiseptic.
A few drops of water of ammonia or a little borax will help much in getting the patient clean and disguise the bad odor of the perspiration.
Rinse them first in cold then in hot water and allow them to stand in a covered cup of boric acid solution or borax water solution one teaspoonful to a pint of water.
One-fourth teaspoonful borax in one cup of hot water, gargle frequently.
After using rinse them carefully in cold water and keep them covered in a glass containing a solution of borax or boric acid.
When melted and hot, add a pinch of borax and an ounce and a half of rose-water.
Rinse the mouth well with a weak solution of borax water, then put a little dry borax on the canker.
Borax is very frequently employed; it melts to a clear liquid and dissolves silica and many metallic oxides.
At the present time the use of borax or boracic acid is almost universal in England.
Wash the mouth twice a day with one ounce of borax and one fluid ounce of myrrh mixed in one quart of water or a mild solution of Pratts Dip and Disinfectant.
If it occurs in calves, give Pratts Cow Remedy with milk and use borax as mentioned above.
The suggestion was a fortunate one, for just at this time large deposits of borax were discovered in the mountains at Wordsworth, Nevada, and Nadeau commenced operations there with every promise of success.
The nitrate and borax deposits are extensive and productive, and common salt is a natural product of large areas in the elevated desert regions of the Andes.
More than nine-tenths of the borax product of the country comes from about Death Valley.
In that case, powdered borax will prove an expedient eradicator.
Hard water may be softened with potash or sal soda, which is much cheaper than borax and ammonia, but potash and sal soda are both corrosive and very injurious to the linen.
But Borax never does business in his shop, which is a dusty desert from one week's end to another.
Borax is the pink of politeness, though a bit of a martinet after an ancient and punctilious model.
Meanwhile the multiplication of rubbish only enhances the value of gold; and a Fiddle worthy of an applauding verdict from old Boraxis more difficult of acquisition than ever.
Borax has but one price; and if you do not choose to pay it, you must do without the article.
The addition of a little borax to the bath is a great advantage in mitigating the appearance of gas.
Near Colorados, in the Argentine Republic, a large bed of superior coal has been opened, and to the west of the Province of Buenos Ayres extensive borax deposits have been discovered.
It is curious that here, too, the borax is of use; for it not only enables the oil to mix with the water of the starch, but it gives the starch a consistence and toughness, which without it it never possesses.
The translator does not seem to be aware that borax is the solvent for lac; she mentions "sulphuric or muriatic acid," but water with borax alone will dissolve lac before it boils.
We have not ourselves tried sufficiently soda with oil, and have suspected it would not have the effect of rendering the paint hard; but that borax does render the paint very hard we have abundant proof.
The borax he vitrified; and it was because the paint mixed with this oil and borax vitrified also, after the manner of the paint of the old masters, he so used it; but nothing occurred to him about water.
I tried other proportions of soda solutions with oil, but none resembled the results obtained from solutions of borax with oil.
One hundred parts of boraxmay be said to consist of:-- Parts Boracic Acid, 35.
We would venture to recommend some experiments with lac dissolved in borax to water-colour painters.
It should here be remarked that Mr Field, in one of his valuable publications, mentions a mixture of lac and oil by means of borax in certain proportions.
A very convenient mixture of borax and another natural salt has been brought out by Mr. Robottom, of Birmingham (see Chapter I).
Several weeks ago we mentioned the departure of Mr. Arthur Robottom, Birmingham, England, on a search for borax in the southern part of California.
A preparation of borax has been brought out by Mr. Robottom, of Birmingham, who claims for it that it preserves all animal and vegetable tissue, as well as being useful for tanning skins.
Remove from fire and pour in quickly one and one-half ounces of rose-water in which ten grains of borax has been dissolved.
When the hair is very oily a dessertspoonful of ammonia and a pinch of borax should be added to two quarts of warm water.
Mixing the egg with a pinch of borax and a pint of warm water is a good plan.
Dissolve theborax in the rose-water and add the essence of clover.
Then pour in one and one-half ounces of distilled water in which fifteen grains of borax have been dissolved.
Be careful not to get borax on the upper part of the wire or on the handle.
The cobalt will always change the borax bead to the blue you got; the chromium will make the bead emerald green or, in certain kinds of flame, ruby red; etc.
Hold the loop of wire in the flame of a Bunsen burner for a few seconds, then dip the looped end in borax powder.
You may have to dip it into the borax once or twice more to get a good-sized bead.
The platinum loop used in making the borax bead test.
If you wanted to know whether or not certain substances contained cobalt combined with oxygen, you could really find out by taking a grain on a borax bead and seeing if it turned blue.
It is a powerful flux, and is used as a substitute for borax as a blowpipe reagent in testing for the metallic oxides.
Defn: Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homoemorphous, but heteromerous.
Rub a small lump of borax on a moistened tile and rub the joint to be brazed with the mixture of borax and water.
Borax is used as the flux, both for the alloy employed in brazing and for silver solder.
Wash your head in borax and water once a week, and then rub a little sulphur ointment into the roots of the hair.
Wash your face about once a week in borax and hot water (one teaspoonful of borax to a pint of water).
The hands should be washed with soap in soft water, or water to which a little borax has been added, thoroughly dried and then well rubbed with the lotion.
Dissolve the borax in the water, the perfume in the alcohol, and mix all together.
To either mass given under X, add and combine thoroughly with it 14 drachms of borax dissolved in 1 quart of water.
For inferior qualities of pomades, borax is much used, since it not only possesses the property of combining a quantity of water with the fat, but also makes the pomade more durable.
If the throat is of a grayish color, add a teaspoonful of borax to every quart of water.
Before the blowpipe it is infusible, but if powdered, it slowly dissolves in the molten borax bead and yields a beautiful green globule.
It decrepitates before the blowpipe, but when fused with some borax in a small hollow on a piece of wood charcoal, gives a globule of copper.
When borax is melted, and exposed for some time to heat, it loses its water, and is changed into what is known by the name of calcined borax.
Homberg obtained the acid from borax in 1702, by distilling a mixture of borax, and sulphate of iron.
The impureborax in the East Indies, is called tincal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "borax" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: alcohol; chemical; cleanser
