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In real-life, borax is used as powder to either protect wood or is used as a flux while forging iron among many other uses (borax is a great aid for hot-forging two metals, for example it is needed to forge "damascus steel").
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In real-life, borax is used as powder to either protect wood or is used as a [[flux]] while forging iron among many other uses (borax is a great aid for hot-forging two metals, for example it is needed to forge "damascus steel").
  
 
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Borax
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Uses

Location

  • Found within gypsum as small clusters
  • Found within rock salt as large clusters
Properties
Fire-safe Not magma-safe

Wikipedia article

This article is about the current version of DF.
Note that some content may still need to be updated.

Borax is an unremarkable white stone which can be found in large quantities within rock salt and in small quantities within gypsum.

Real life

In real-life, borax is used as powder to either protect wood or is used as a flux while forging iron among many other uses (borax is a great aid for hot-forging two metals, for example it is needed to forge "damascus steel").

Borax.
Sedimentary
Igneous
Intrusive
Extrusive
Metamorphic
Ore
Economic
Other