Enamels Glass wool

Anhydrous borax is used in the manufacture of glasses, glass wool, and metallurgical fluxes. Other uses are in enamels, frits, and glazes. It also is applied in fertilizers. 

Borosilicates are dso used in glazes and enamels and in fee production of glass wools. 

Meanwhile, in Rome, Pliny the Elder outlined a primitive method of condensation which collected oil from rosin on a bed of wool, and also made the first tentative experiments in chromatography. The Romans had developed techniques of enamelling, and made one of the most fundamental discoveries that glass could be blown. The Roman contribution to perfumes consisted mainly in making an industry of the supply of raw materials and production of a large variety of fragrances in different forms. Military conquests secured new sources and supply routes to fit the steady demands of a far-flung empire, and the key products in demand were ... 

USE In mfg sulfuric acid, carbon disulfide, sulfites, insec -ticides, plastics, enamels, metal -glass cements in vulcanizing rubber in syntheses of dyes in making gunpowder, matches for bleaching wood pulp, straw, wool, silk, felt, linen. Caution May cause irritation of skin, mucous membranes. 

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