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bórax

borax — a white boron salt used in chemistry and metalworksal blanca de boro usada en química y metalurgia

Comes from Arabic

بَوْرَق

bawraq

“borax, natron”«el bórax, el natrón»

Arabic today says

بَوْرَق

bawraq

And it still does

The article

It came in without the article.

Arabic itself had taken it from Persian.

The story

It reached Spanish through medieval Latin borax. The same word gave the name of the element boron (boro).Llegó al español por el latín medieval borax. De la misma palabra salió el nombre del elemento boro.

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