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borate [′bȯ‚rāt]
(chemistry)
A generic term referring to salts or esters of boric acid.
Related to boric oxide, B2O3, or commonly to only the salts of orthoboric acid, H3BO3.


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Charmax flame retardants and smoke suppressants include proprietary Charmax LS complexes used in low-smoke polymer compositions for wire and cable, Charmax FRs used as antimony oxide replacements, an ultrafine ammonium octamolybdate, zinc staunates, and zinc borates for halogenated and nonhalogenated polymers.
Borax has almost 800 employees in Boron, mining borates in a 650-foot-deep open-pit mine that is one of the world's largest.
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