Borax
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, 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 sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Cheap or tawdry, referring to furniture or other works of industrial design.
Boron
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The chemical element (symbol B) with an atomic number of 5; a metalloid