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Borax vs Acetone - What's the difference?

borax | acetone |

As nouns the difference between borax and acetone

is that borax is borax while acetone is acetone.

borax

English

(wikipedia borax)

Noun

(-)
  • 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.
  • (chemistry) The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate.

    • Synonyms

    * when used as a preservative

    Derived terms

    * borax bead test * boracic * borise, borize * boron

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Cheap or tawdry, referring to furniture or other works of industrial design.

    • References

    * borax at the Free Dictionary

    acetone

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (organic compound) A colourless, volatile, flammable liquid ketone, (CH3)2CO, used as a solvent.

    • Synonyms

    * propanone * propan-2-one * dimethyl ketone

    References

    * (wikipedia "acetone") ----