{"id":83724,"date":"2026-01-22T15:24:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T09:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=83724"},"modified":"2026-01-22T15:55:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T10:25:47","slug":"borax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/borax\/","title":{"rendered":"Borax"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Borax Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a tragic incident from Tamil Nadu, a 19-year-old college girl recently died after consuming borax for weight loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Borax<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Borax, also known as <\/span><b>sodium tetraborate decahydrate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is a <\/span><b>powdery white mineral.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s a <\/span><b>combination of boron, sodium, and oxygen.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Chemical Formula: Na2B4O7\u00b710H2O\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>used <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in many ways\u2014as a<\/span><b> component of glass and pottery glazes in the ceramics <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">industry, as a <\/span><b>solvent for metal-oxide slags in metallurgy,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a <\/span><b>flux in welding and soldering,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and as a <\/span><b>fertilizer additive, a soap supplement,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a <\/span><b>disinfectant<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a mouthwash, and a water softener.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Borax <\/span><b>occurs naturally in evaporite deposits <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">produced by the r<\/span><b>epeated evaporation of seasonal lakes.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Borax can also be <\/span><b>produced synthetically<\/b> <b>from other boron compounds.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Naturally occurring borax is refined by the process of recrystallization.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/health\/college-girl-dies-after-taking-borax-for-weight-loss-doctors-warn-against-fatal-trend-10797512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NDTV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Borax, also known as sodium tetraborate decahydrate, is a powdery white mineral. Read more about Borax, Chemical Formula, Uses, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":83744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-83724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}