In a tragic incident from Tamil Nadu, a 19-year-old college girl recently died after consuming borax for weight loss.
About Borax:
Borax, also known as sodium tetraborate decahydrate, is a powdery white mineral.
It’s a combination of boron, sodium, and oxygen.
Chemical Formula: Na2B4O7·10H2O
It is used in many ways—as a component of glass and pottery glazes in the ceramics industry, as a solvent for metal-oxide slags in metallurgy, as a flux in welding and soldering, and as a fertilizer additive, a soap supplement, a disinfectant, a mouthwash, and a water softener.
Borax occurs naturally in evaporite deposits produced by the repeated evaporation of seasonal lakes.
Borax can also be produced syntheticallyfrom other boron compounds.
Naturally occurring borax is refined by the process of recrystallization.
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