Borax, Boric acid, and Boron From exotic to commodity
2010-5-3 · borax, is an artificial sort of nitre, made of urines stirred together in the heat of the sun, in a copper pan, with a ladle of the same until it thicken and coagulate, although others make it of sal ammoniac and alum). In 1702, Wilhelm Homberg (1652-1715) noticed that when borax was heated with green vitriol (ferrous