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Borax is a white mineral, sold as a powder, that people use for cleaning. It helps with laundry, cutting grease, and killing mould; you may also find it in some soaps and in the making of glass and ceramics. In a house it is the cleaning powder, not a food and not a medicine. It is related to boron, the element, but you do not need the chemistry to use the word: in ordinary talk borax is the cleaner in the . Handle it as a household chemical — useful, not something to eat or throw around.
硼砂（清潔、洗衣用的白色礦物粉）
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
boraxnoun/ˈbɔː.ɹæks/
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A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, found in nature as a mineral, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
- “The best way to clean the machine is to put a pound of borax and a gallon of vinegar in the machine and run the longest, hottest cycle you have,” he says.
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chemistryinorganic-chemistrynatural-sciencesThe sodium salt of boric acid, Na₂B₄O₇, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallization.
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Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.
- Furniture isn't made to last thirty years or longer because they took a survey and found that young homemakers like to throw their furniture out and bring in all new, color-coded borax every seven years.
boraxverb/ˈbɔː.ɹæks/
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To treat with borax.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。