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Borax
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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").
[INORGANIC:BORAX]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:STONE_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:borax][DISPLAY_COLOR:7:7:1][TILE:'`']
[ENVIRONMENT_SPEC:GYPSUM:CLUSTER_SMALL:100]
[ENVIRONMENT_SPEC:ROCK_SALT:CLUSTER:100]
[IS_STONE]
[MELTING_POINT:11334]
[BOILING_POINT:12835]
[SOLID_DENSITY:1730]
[STATE_COLOR:ALL_SOLID:SILVER] |
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