borates

They are without phosphates, borates, nitrates, and other earth pollutants.

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And borates in significant strengths sufficient to prevent insect infestation and prevent mold are Not harmless, as per the warnings to wear protective clothing!

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Some industrial minerals are used as sources of important chemicals (e.g. halite for sodium chloride and borax for borates).

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These minerals form when boron-bearing waters percolate into inland desert lakes and evaporate, leaving layers of borates, chlorides, and sulfates.

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RE: #12 – That dust from those lake beds, significantly, often contains borates.

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Pests do not like cellulose because of the borates.

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Cellulose is treated with borates and has a class 1 fire rating.

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That old Owens lake dust has in it, in addition to salts and borates, a goodly amount of old detritus from the algae and brine shrimp that lived in it.

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The report of natural deposits thus situated will appear very improbable to scientific men, for there is nothing to account for the separation of the salt from the borates, or for the accumulation of salt above the level of other crystalline deposits.

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_Borax or borates_ are tested for in the residue insoluble in alcohol.

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