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Anticar

A name identified with borax.

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A Chymical Dictionary

Gerhard Dorn and John French · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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  • The wordA name identified with borax.
  • A place to readThe historical definition below, 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 4; facsimile PDF page 332.

Historical definition

Anticar is borax.

Meaning

This entry supplies a lexical bridge rather than a procedure. A reader can connect Anticar with Tinkar, another historical borax term in the dictionary, while preserving the wording used by the original author. The short equation does not tell us the material’s source, degree of preparation or exact composition. Those details must come from the passage that employs it. An index can gather the names without implying that every historical specimen was standardized.

Places to read

  1. AnticarRead the complete historical definition and its commentary.
  2. TinkarA historical name equated with borax.

Source note

Historical source. 1650 dictionary, unnumbered definition page 4; facsimile PDF page 332 — Facsimile

Sources. A Chymicall Dictionary (1650), s.v. Anticar ; compare Tinkar