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per•bo•rate
Pronunciation: (pur-bôr'āt, -bōr'-), [key]—
n. Chem.
a salt of perboric acid, as sodium perborate, NaBO
3·4H
2O, used for bleaching, disinfecting, etc.
Also,peroxyborate.Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.