How to Use boric acid in a Sentence

boric acid

noun
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  • He’s opened a package of boric acid mailed to him as a threat.
    — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 24 Apr. 2021
  • There was not one patient 10 years ago that was using boric acid.
    — Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
  • Basic traps, sticky pads, and boric acid treatments can cost less than $10.
    — Michael Pollick, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2020
  • If that doesn't work, pour straight boric acid on the colony, or use an insecticide spray.
    — Angela Watson, chicagotribune.com, 3 Apr. 2021
  • It’s applied in the same manner as boric acid, with a manual duster.
    — Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 8 Jan. 2019
  • Mix equal parts boric acid powder and one of the following: flour, cornmeal or sugar.
    — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2021
  • And dietary supplements have been found to contain boric acid, floor wax, and rat poison.
    — Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 23 June 2021
  • Try this dry powder combination: Mix equal parts of boric acid and flour or cornmeal, and some sugar.
    — Washington Post, 21 July 2021
  • If the pH is off, boric acid suppositories from the natural food store can be helpful.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Mix one tablespoon of a peanut butter and honey mixture with ¼ teaspoon boric acid.
    — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021
  • While boric acid is more toxic than its chemical cousin, researchers say 10 grams of borax in adults – and just 5 grams in children – can be fatal.
    — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
  • The standard slime recipe — which dates back to the 1940s, when an engineer dropped boric acid into silicone oil — almost always starts with glue.
    — Ellen McCarthy, Washington Post, 1 July 2022
  • Yet just like its name suggests, boric acid can extremely dangerous, says Dr. Moore.
    — Jazmine Polk, Health.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • That substance was Play-Doh—or, more accurately, a mixture of flour, salt, water, and boric acid that would later become Play-Doh.
    — Popular Science, 20 May 2020
  • But boric acid does have very low toxicity to humans and is safe if applied properly.
    — Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Our returning top pick is a familiar brand name roach motel, while a traditional boric acid treatment and a gel formula round out the list.
    — Michael Pollick, chicagotribune.com, 8 Aug. 2020
  • For optimal vaginal health, use our boric acid suppository, The Killer.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Bait traps typically contain boric acid or a similar ingredient that’s toxic to ants but won’t kill them right away.
    — Angela Watson, chicagotribune.com, 3 Apr. 2021
  • It’s made from 99 percent boric acid, which is the key deadly ingredient that (morbidly) affects the roach’s nervous and digestive systems, swiftly killing it.
    — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Sep. 2022
  • It’s made from 99 percent boric acid, which is the key deadly ingredient that (morbidly) affects the roach’s nervous and digestive systems, swiftly killing it.
    — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2023
  • For some women, vaginal boric acid suppositories can help.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The Support Ritual also features bath bombs, but these are fragrance free, plus boric acid and herb suppositories, and organic cotton liners to bring you back to your pH center.
    — Noel Cody, Essence, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Control ants with sticky Tree Tanglefoot Insect Barrier or traps containing boric acid.
    — Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 31 Mar. 2022
  • For those with yeast infections, boric acid has been shown to employ an antifungal effect when used in vaginal suppositories.
    — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 9 Apr. 2023
  • A few years later, her dalliance with a member of the Weather Underground led to an arrest for possession of a suspicious substance that was actually just boric acid, for the removal of a foreign object from her eye.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
  • The drugs can have too much or too little of an active ingredient, be substandard or expired, or contain poisons and contaminants such as floor wax, mercury, boric acid, paint or antifreeze.
    — Sumathi Reddy, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2018
  • Powders often contain boric acid dust which is less toxic to mammals than most synthetic insecticides.
    — Dan Diclerico, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2022
  • There’s plenty of debate, even among doctors, about whether boric acid suppositories can cure certain vaginal infections.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 24 July 2023
  • The populations were tested for their level of resistance to three different insecticides: abamectin, boric acid, and thiamethoxam.
    — Kelly Mayes, Science | AAAS, 28 June 2019
  • To make COFs, scientists link up certain carbon-containing molecules (boric acid, for example) via covalent bonds (in which atoms share electron pairs) into a porous crystalline powder.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 21 July 2019

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