boracic
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of boracic
Example Sentences
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Small amounts of boracic acid can cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhoea, but worse, it was what borax concealed that was particularly dangerous.
From BBC • Dec. 10, 2013
He fed them on advertised foods that contained boracic acid, sulfates, benzoates, formaldehyde; he watched their cheeks grow lean, their temples hollow, their skins turn the color of whey.
From Time Magazine Archive
The "tear-channels" which led to this digression can be helped not to exist by using a boracic acid lotion to the eye; but the stains are often ineffaceable.
From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Williams, Mrs. Leslie
Ointments of boracic acid, zinc, or iodoform are likewise useful when introduced through the nostril.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Providentially we had with us a small tin of boracic ointment with which we plastered these sore places every daily halt.
From 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison by Caunter, John Alan Lyde
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