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Aethogen
noun · 78% connection
A compound of nitrogen and boro/, which, when heated before the blowpipe, gives a brilliant phosphorescent; boric nitride.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.
Bead
noun · 78% connection
A glassy drop of molten flux, as borax or microcosmic salt, used as a solvent and color test for several mineral earths and oxides, as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.
Boracous
adjective · 78% connection
Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.
Borate
noun · 78% connection
A salt formed by the combination of boric acid with a base or positive radical.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.
Borax
noun · 78% connection
A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.
Boride
noun · 78% connection
A binary compound of boron with a more positive or basic element or radical; -- formerly called boruret.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.
Borofluoride
noun · 78% connection
A double fluoride of boron and hydrogen, or some other positive element, or radical; -- called also fluoboride, and formerly fluoborat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.
Boroglyceride
noun · 78% connection
A compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.
Boron
noun · 78% connection
A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in sever…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.
Borosilicate
noun · 78% connection
A double salt of boric and silicic acids, as in the natural minerals tourmaline, datolite, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.
Cyanuric acid
unknown · 78% connection
an organic acid, C3O3N3H3, first obtained by heating uric acid or urea, and called pyrouric acid; afterwards obtained from isocyanic a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.
Distillation
noun · 78% connection
The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.
Ekaboron
noun · 78% connection
The name given by Mendelejeff in accordance with the periodic law, and by prediction, to a hypothetical element then unknown, but sinc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.
Fluoboric
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, derived from, or consisting of, fluorine and boron.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.
Flux
noun · 78% connection
Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime, fluorite.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.
Frett
noun · 78% connection
A vitreous compound, used by potters in glazing, consisting of lime, silica, borax, lead, and soda.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.
Hematinon
noun · 78% connection
A red consisting of silica, borax, and soda, fused with oxide of copper and iron, and used in enamels, mosaics, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.
Heteromerous
adjective · 78% connection
Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homoemorphous, but…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: pertaining, produced, borax, containing, boron.