borax
Boron compound, a salt of boric acid
Also known as sodium borate · sodium tetraborate · disodium tetraborate · Na2B4O710H2O · E285 · sodium borate decahydrate
- Formula
- Na₂B₄O₇·10H₂O
1
- Na₂B₄O₇·10H₂O
- Mass
- 201.9812 Da
- Melting point
- 1,366°F
- Boiling point
- 1,575°C
- Density
- 2.37 g/cm³
- Solubility
- 4 gram per 100 gram of solvent
Overview
Chemistry
All data
81 statements · 26% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Canonical SMILES
- [Na+].[Na+].[O-]B1OB2OB([O-])OB(O1)O2.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O
- Has use
- flux applies to part: brazing
- fire retardant
- buffer solution
- food additive
- Vapor pressure
- 0 millimetre of mercury temperature: 68°F
- Time-weighted average exposure limit
- 1 milligram per cubic metre applies to jurisdiction: none · runtime: 10 h
- Safety classification and labelling
- NFPA 704: Standard System for the Identification of the Hazards of Materials for Emergency Response nfpa health: 1 · nfpa fire: 0 · nfpa instability: 0
On other databases
50 identifiers linking borax across the web's reference databases
- AGROVOC IDc_1011
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID300011077
- ATC codeS01AX07
- BabelNet ID00012207n
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID135085222
- Biblissima authority IDQ297704
- BNCF Thesaurus ID31250
- CAS Registry Number1303-96-4
- ChEMBL IDCHEMBL1076681
- ChemSpider ID8395345
- Dewey Decimal Classification553.633
- DrugBank IDDB14505
- DSSTox substance IDDTXSID101014358
- E numberE285
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDscience/borax-chemical-compound
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)34tNGo
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)33909
- FAST ID836582
- Freebase ID/m/0hdcp
- GND ID4463401-8
- Google Knowledge Graph ID/g/11vjpcmv6
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDtetraborat-de-sodi
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0154264
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDboraks
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)2251257
- InChIInChI=1S/B4O7.2Na/c5-1-7-3-9-2(6)10-4(8-1)11-3;;/q-2;2*+1
- InChIKeyUQGFMSUEHSUPRD-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- J9U entity ID987007283090705171
- KBpedia IDBorax
- Krugosvet article (archived)nauka_i_tehnika/himiya/BURA.html
- Lex IDboraks
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85015806
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)2777264276
- NALT ID18622
- NDL Authority ID00563508
- Open Food Facts food additive IDe285-sodium-tetraborate
- OpenAlex IDC2777264276
- Probes And Drugs IDPD094546
- PubChem CID10219853
- Quora topic IDBorax
- RTECS numberVZ2275000
- ScienceDirect topic IDagricultural-and-biological-sciences/borax
- SureChEMBL ID15872
- UniChem compound ID23353184
- UNII8191EN8ZMD
- Wellcome Collection concept IDrz75ahgt
- Wolfram Language entity codeEntity["Mineral", "Borax"]
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID14693245-n
- Yale LUX IDconcept/3816ab2e-5379-40c7-acff-111c573d0f77
- ZVG number1820