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I am going to leave boric acid laced juice socks out at night.

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of or relating to or derived from or containing boron; "boric acid"

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adjective

of or relating to or derived from or containing boron; "boric acid"

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adjective

of or relating to or derived from or containing boron; "boric acid"

Example sentences

I am going to leave boric acid laced juice socks out at night.

I use boric acid for restoring rotted wood in my old 1800's house.

This doesn't mean they're resistant to the dye/boric acid, it probably just means they never tried the bait.

There are some links between boric acid and fertility as well as harm to fetuses, beware.

I thought it was fine-granule sugar mixed with boric acid.

Other ants that normally stay outdoors, such as harvester ants or fire ants, aren't as receptive to boric acid ant baits.

"we lived through the series of apartments in the Valley, and boric acid carried us through even though neighbors were heavily infested with ants/roaches.

They used different toxins in different tests, a modern bacterial toxin targeting mosquitos, and then simply boric acid, about which they say: … and it kills in so many ways that there’s never been resistance to it.

But one of the major reasons for moving to soda lime was environmental compliance: borosilicate glass produces far more emissions from a glass furnace, accounting, in part, for the presence of boric acid in the water and soil.

According to the EPA "technical boric acid is practically nontoxic to birds, fish and aquatic invertebrates, and relatively nontoxic to beneficial insects.