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Borax (also
referred to as
sodium borate,
tincal (/ˈtɪŋkəl/) and
tincar (/ˈtɪŋkər/)) is a salt (ionic compound), a
hydrated or
anhydrous borate of sodium...
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source of
commercial borax.
Borax first reached Western civilization as
tincal mined from
deposits in Tibet. The term
borax comes from the
Arabic bauraq...
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which boron resembles chemically.
Borax in its
mineral form (then
known as
tincal)
first saw use as a glaze,
beginning in
China circa 300 AD. Some
crude borax...
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minerals from a
worldwide commercial standpoint based on
abundance are
tincal (also
known as borax), ulexite, and
colemanite (Ekmekyaper et al., 2008)...
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reported from Argentina, Italy,
Turkey and Ukraine. The name
comes from "
tincal",
Sanskrit for borax, and Gr****, "konis",
meaning powder, for its composition...
- Minerals:
Colemanite (Ground, Granular, Compacted, Concentrated)
Ulexite Tincal Şebnem Önder; Ayşe Eda Biçer; Işıl
Selen Denemeç (September 2013). "Are...
- boras, baurac, and chrysocolla.
Tincal @ CNRTL.fr.
Greater details about the
Portuguese origin of the
wordform tincal as a
variant of the
medieval Latin...
- in the form of
tincal,
although other borate minerals are
present in
smaller amounts. The Kırka
deposit is the
single largest tincal deposit in the world...
