Boric Acid

'Boric acid or orthoboric acid, boric trioxide acid in IUPAC nomenclature (III), is a weak acid often used as antiseptic, insecticide, disinfectant, flame retardant .

It is also known as sassolite. It is used in chemical industry to prepare metal fluoborate (used in galvanic plating), to produce borax, synthetic anthraquinone-based colouring agent etc. It is also used in many pharmaceutical preparations to be applied externally for its mild antiseptic action (it is mildly bacteriostatic but it is not bactericide). It is used in aqueous solutions for eyewashes, lotions, gargles. It is used in hydroalcoholic solution for earphones. It is used in glyceric solution for paintings. It is used as a component in salves and Sprinkling powder. It is used in cosmetics to make cream and lotions, but it is mainly used in perfumed talcum powder (3% concentration). It is used as an electrolyte in galvanoplastics; it is used in electrolytic condenser for radios. It is used as a component of some mixtures of cemented of the production of ceramic wheels. It is used in agriculture, as a constituent of chemical fertilizer, in relatively low quantity (1-2%). It is used to impermeabilize wood and to make fabrics fire-resistent. It is used in photography as a neutralizer of alkalinity of the detector bath in the fixing bath. It is also used as a plug. It is often used in leather industry, in carpet industry, in hat industry, in soap industry, in artificial pearl industry and in metallurgic industry.

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