boracic BrE informal
brassic

I tipped some boracic crystals into a box and handed it over.

He also made valued contributions in his chemical research of boracic acid.

Boracic powder very necessary for my eyes which much inflamed by study, was removed.

After many experiments he found that boracic acid was a better antiseptic.

On one trip he asked a taxi driver to buy him a little cocaine and got boracic powder.

Boracic acid was found to be completely ineffective.

Boracic acid in one gallon of water.

What is all this about boracic?

I niean the boracic and the electric light bulbs and the rucksack.

When in use, boracic lint proved to be very valuable in the treatment of leg ulcers.

Nobody would steal boracic powder!

Boracic or something.

And boracic powder?

His hypodermic injections contained sulfate of strychnine, atropine and boracic acid.

The probe and scalpel were clean and had been sterilized in boracic acid and boiling water.

Aspirin, Boracic powder, iodine.

Tins of plaster, tipped open, lint and packets of boracic powder strewn about in an angry mess.

There are white men in the Solomons who stake all upon boracic acid, and others who are prejudiced in favour of lysol.

It occurred because drug distributors discovered that Phil Jeffs (1896-1945), another ganglord, was adulterating his cocaine supplies with boracic acid.

By the time Patricia had substituted the bicarbonate, the morphine had already been substituted by the stolen boracic powder.

So we have come to the things that it would seem were not worth stealing-old flannel trousers, electric light bulbs, boracic powder, bath salts-a cookery book.

On the other side of the table her son Terence, aged twelve, said: "Boracic salts burn with a green flame, sodium salts are yellow."

Dressings can be impregnated with antiseptic chemicals, as in boracic lint or where medicinal castor oil was used in the first surgical dressings.

Barff had been attempting to find a way in which boracic acid, a known antiseptic, could be used to preserve meats, at a time when beef prices were considered high.

The corrosive sublimate was accidentally left ashore at Penduffryn; the peroxide of hydrogen is exhausted; and I am experimenting with boracic acid, lysol, and antiphlogystine.