Borax
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A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste,used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors onporcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain mineralsprings, and is made from the boric acid of hot springs in Tuscany.It was originally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent toEurope under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborateof sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O. Borax bead. (Chem.) See Bead, n., 3.
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[A basketball] game originating in [southwest] Florida similar to horse. It is so similar it is exactly like horse [only you] use the word borax. Players often shoot around intoxicated and forget which letter theyre on.
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