Until about 1902, legal food preservatives included chemicals like formaldehyde, borax and copper sulfate.

在1902年以前合法的食品添加剂还包括甲醛，硼砂和硫酸铜。

Borax and formaldehyde were packed with meat to make it appear fresher.

硼砂和甲醛添加到肉里可以让肉看起来很新鲜。

Borax? Oh man, I love that movie.

- 硼砂？哦，伙计，我喜欢影。

Near the sugar were salt, borax, baking soda, cornstarch, brown sugar and so on.

靠近糖的是盐、硼砂、小苏打、玉米淀粉、红糖等。

I funneled it back into the box and tried the borax.

我把它装回盒子里并尝试硼砂。

In the back room she cooked a mysterious compound of quince seeds and borax.

在后面的房间里， 她煮一种由木瓜籽和硼砂混合而成的神秘混合物。

Soaking in water with borax, for example, Epsom salt.

例如，浸泡在含有硼砂或泻盐的水中。

This ultimately led to the creation of the FDA. So, thanks, Dr. Wylie, our food is so much better without all that borax.

这最终导致FDA的产。所以谢谢他们的努力。威利博士，没有添加硼砂的食物比以前好得多。

Then she poured the quince seed and borax mixture out of the window into the ash can.

然后她把木瓜籽和硼砂的混合物从窗外倒进垃圾桶里。

Compounds of boron feature in washing powders and cleaning products (" borax" ), antiseptics and water softeners, and also as additives in fibreglass, but such roles are humdrum.

硼化合物用在洗衣粉和清洁产品(“硼砂”)、防腐剂和水软化剂中，也可作为添加剂的玻璃纤维，但这些作用是单调的。

Inspired by the cheap slime toy that children play with all over the world, Zhang's team first created the substance in 2021 by mixing a simple polymer with borax.

从这种世界各地的孩子都在玩的廉价黏液玩具中得到启发，张立团队于2021年通过将一种简单的聚合物与硼砂混合，首次创造出这一物质。

Their studies helped determine that while compounds like borax, hydrated sodium borate, are effective at cleaning, adding minerals to the soil, repealing pests and manufacturing glass and porcelain, they`re less savory as a food preservative.

他们的研究结果显示，尽管硼砂和水合硼酸钠这样的复合物在，清洁，给土壤增肥，驱除害虫，制作玻璃和陶瓷方面有很好的效果，但是作为食品添加剂还是不妥的。