Tincal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Crude borax.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. crude native borax, formerly imported from Tibet, and once the chief source of boric compounds
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Crude native borax, formerly imported from Thibet. It was once the chief source of boric compounds. Cf. borax.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Borax in its crude or unrefined state: so called in commerce.
    • Word Usage
    "The principal boron minerals are borax or "tincal" (hydrated sodium borate), colemanite (hydrated calcium borate), ulexite (hydrated calcium-sodium borate), and boracite (magnesium chloro-borate)."
    Variant
    borax   
     
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