Borax glycerin

Pour a drop of concentrated sulphuric acid and a drop of glycerin onto a watch glass and add a small amount of borax. Carefully stir the mixture with the eye of a platinum wire and introduce it into the flame of a burner. How is the flame coloured Write the equation of the reaction. 

Hard, colorless crystals, or crystalline pieces, soluble in 17 parts of cold, and in 0.5 part of boiling, water, freely soluble in glycerin, but insoluble in alcohol. When borax is heated, it swells up, the water of crystallization being expelled, and at a red heat the anhydrous borax fuses to a transparent, colorless mass. 

Mixed gall and logwood inks and inks based on lamp-black, humous matters, etc., are also common. Copying inks contain also glycerine, glucose, calcium chloride, m order that the writing may not dry too quickly. Some inks, termed carbon inks, contain either gum lac or colophony held in solution by means of borax or sodium carbonate, or casein or sodium silicate (in such inks the colour is mostly obtained from lamp-black). 

Start heating another jacketed tank as 820 mL of purified water is added to it. Add and dissolve glycerin, methylparaben, and borax as purified water is added and as solution is heated to 65°-70°C. 

Glycerine Lotion for tiritation of the Skin. Mix 1 ounce of glycerine with 1 pint water. It allays itchini and removes dryness Ac., in various skin diseases. IVith the admtion of 2 or 3 drachms of borax, it removes chaps from the lips, hands, and nipples. 

Borax. To tho borax ointment, as prepared in the foregoing receipt, add 1 drachm avoirdupois pure glycerine, using a slightly warmed mortar for tho mixture. This is a verv effective ointment. 

Lotion. For sore Ups, chapped bands, Ac. Take drachm borax, fluid ounce glycerine, and fluid ounces rose-water. 

Modes of Application.— A mixture of one part of finely powdered borax and six parts of honey or glycerin is applied to the part affected. 

In addition to the camphor solution and carbonate of ammonia, tixe patentees prefer to add of borax about 10 per cent, to the soap, and also glycerine to the extent of 6 per cent. In addmg borax it is dissolved in as smidl a Quantitv of water as is practicahle, and the solution is... 

Boric acid in aqueous or glycerine solutions, and borax (biborate of soda) are sometimes used, but care is necessary in employing these substances, as any excess is liable to decompose the soap. 

Honey of Borax, B.P,C, A solution of borax, 10 per cent, in glycerin and honey. 

Compound Glycerin of Thymol, B,P.C. A mixture of sodium bicarbonate, 1 per cent w v, borax, 2 per cent w v, sodium benzoate, 0-80 per cent w/v, and sodium salicylate, 0 52 per cent w v, with glycerin and a number of volatile constituents. 

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