Borax Glass Products

Borax is used in the production of pyrex glass, ceramics, as a flux in soldering and welding, and in laundering to impart a glaze to linen. 

Boric acid is also an important boron compound with major markets in textile products. Use of borax as a mild antiseptic is minor in terms of dollars and tons. Boron compounds are also extensively used in the manufacture of borosilicate glasses. Other boron compounds show promise in treating arthritis. 

British chemist Sir Humphry Davy and French chemists Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, Louis-Jacques Thenard Nearly as hard as diamond, this brittle crystal is rare in pure form combines to form borax also valuable in the production of glass and semiconductors. 

Borax decahydrate occurs in nature as mineral, borax (tincal). It is one of the most common sodium borate ores. The compound has several industrial applications. The refined material is mostly used in household cleaning products. It is used to make pyrex and other horosilicate glasses. Borax is added to fertilizers in small quantities as a source of boron, as a trace nutrient for plants. High purity grade borax is used in cosmetics, toilet products and electrolytic capacitors. It also is used in fire retardants, adhesives and herbicides. 

The fission products remain to be dealt with. The preferred solution at the moment is to evaporate their solution and pyrolyse the product to convert it into a mixture of oxides on fusion with silica and borax an inert borosilicate glass is formed, which encapsulates the radioactive materials. At present the main problem seems to be choosing suitably stable geological areas where these materials will not be disturbed by earthquakes nor dissolved by underground water. 

Four sodium tetraborates are important as boron minerals and/or large tonnage items of commerce. Borax, or sodium tetraborate decahydrate, is extracted from large open-pit mines in Tnrkey and the United States. Turkish beneficiated native borax, also referred to by the mineral name tincal, is used directly in glass making and other applications. Refined borax is used widely in consumer products and as... 

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