Boric Acid Powder is usually used in dilute solutions as a treatment for diaper rash, insect bites and stings, and sunburns. Boric acid is an effective pesticide for cockroaches, rats, and flies. Boric acid is called a swimming pool chemical because it has proved to be highly useful for maintenance.
Boric Acid Uses
Fused products (glass, glass fibre ceramics, frits, glazed, porcelain enamels)
As fluxes and metallurgical operation (welding and brazing steel industry (paste fluxes, soldering fluxes)
Boron Chemicals (boron salts, boron trifluoride, boron phosphates, boron fluo-borates, borate ester, ferro-boron and others)
Catalysts (cyclohexane oxidation, hydrocarbon oxidation)
Nuclear applications, nuclear power plants
Boric Acid is Antiseptic, Insecticide, flame retardant, or a neutron absorber, and a precursor of other chemical compounds.
