Team Borax trademark, named for the method by which borax was originally hauled out of the California and Nevada deserts. The English word borax is Latinized:...

The borax method is a technique of artisanal gold mining, which uses borax as a flux to purify gold concentrates. By using borax, no mercury flour is produced...

The Harmony Borax Works is located in Death Valley at Furnace Creek Springs, then called Greenland. It is now located within Death Valley National Park...

the borate minerals. These are mined industrially as evaporites, such as borax and kernite. The largest known deposits are in Turkey, the largest producer...

Pacific Coast Borax Company (PCB) was a United States mining company founded in 1890 by the American borax magnate Francis Smith, the "Borax King". The roots...

B4O2−7; or any salt of such anions, such as sodium metaborate, Na+[BO2]− and borax (Na+)2[B4O7]2−. The name also refers to esters of such anions, such as trimethyl...

": 43  The series was sponsored by the Pacific Coast Borax Company, makers of 20 Mule Team Borax and Boraxo, and hosted by Stanley Andrews ("The Old Ranger")...

sensitive to boron, and can be killed by applying borax (sodium tetraborate) in solution. However, borax is toxic to ants and to animals at only slightly...

Orthoboric acid was first prepared by Wilhelm Homberg (1652–1715) from borax, by the action of mineral acids, and was given the name sal sedativum Hombergi...

have important industrial and household applications; the best known being borax, (Na+)2[B4O5(OH)4]2−·8H2O = Na2B4H20O17. The ternary phase diagram of the...

bridge between alginate chains. Polyvinyl alcohol gels upon the addition of borax through hydrogen bonding between boric acid and the polymer's alcohol groups...

contained borax, the search led John Allen Veatch to nearby Borax Lake where the California Borax Company established the first commercial borax mining operation...

later (borax) precipitates as a white powder. 8BO2−2 → 2B4O2−7 + O2 + 4 e− Sodium metaborate can be converted to sodium borohydride by several methods, including...

imported from the East Indies exclusively by the Dutch. Payen's new method of synthesizing borax allowed him to sell the mineral at one third the going price...

These are guar-based fluids cross-linked with boron ions (from aqueous borax/boric acid solution). These gels have higher viscosity at pH 9 onwards and...

lack the needed type of heat-curing myosin and are not used for surimi. Borax was once widely used in Asian fish balls to make the texture bouncier and...

Fuel for heating Limestone - Uniform visual ashing Starch - Binding agent Borax - Release from press molds Sawdust - Accelerate ignition The raw materials...

firestain when applied to metals before heating. Flux is usually made out of borax but other chemical compounds also have applications as fluxes. Techniques...

Another trend is silica gel. Its initial cost is greater than that of borax-sand or borax-cornmeal combinations, but silica gel can be used over and over for...

called "borax" when they were used as fluxing agents, and borax at that time was often called tincar | atincar, and "Arabian borax", as well as "borax" – Martin...

subjected to a process, as when the rind of an orange is impregnated with borax to prevent decay, is not an article of manufacture. Thus, in American Fruit...

the earliest known fluxes were sodium carbonate, potash, charcoal, coke, borax, lime, lead sulfide and certain minerals containing phosphorus. Iron ore...

soap, and paper . It is used in the manufacture of sodium compounds like borax (sodium borate). Sodium carbonate serves as a flux for silica (SiO2, melting...

methylene blue solution, which Malachowsky accomplished by the addition of borax to the staining mixture. Malachowsky is reported to have demonstrated the...

when the two pieces are beaten together. A simple flux can be made from borax, sometimes with the addition of powdered iron-filings. The oldest flux used...

nuclear power reactors safer and longer lasting. The Boiling Water Reactors (BORAX) experiments were five reactors built between 1953 and 1964 by Argonne National...

Kebler (1894): "On the interaction of borax, carbonates and polyhydric alcohols; also on the composition of borax". Journal of the Franklin Institute,...

commercially by the manufacturers of the machine. Two common ingredients were borax and ammonia, which are mildly alkaline (having a high pH) but are relatively...

culture), United States Borax Lake Site, for two of the earliest cultural traditions in California: the Post Pattern and Borax Lake Pattern. New Caledonia...

buffer for gel electrophoresis of DNA and RNA. It is also used in the borax fusion method to vitrify mineral powder specimens for analysis by WDXRF spectroscopy...