Answer to "Soft white mineral" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BORAX , but the solution may also be ALABASTER which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).

Soft white mineral crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
BORAX	33 %	5
HALITE	33 %	6
ALABASTER	33 %	9

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Soft white mineral

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• borax
• halite
• meerschaum
• kernite
• tin
• kaolinite
• aphrodite
• talc
• pyrophyllite
• potassium
• realgar
• chalk

Crossword Answer definitions

BORAX noun

1. A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
2. The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate.
3. (sometimes attributive) Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result BORAX

• "Twenty-Mule Team" stuff
• Cleansing agent
• Cleansing powder
• Laundry detergent powder
• Water softener
• Mineral used to soften water
• White powder used in cleaning products
• Cleaning compound
• Compound in some soaps
• Common cleanser

More clues leading to the result HALITE

• Rock salt
• Rock salt, to a mineralogist
• Ice-melting aid
• Highway department supply
• Ice cream-making supply
• Rock salt.
• Native rock salt.
• Native salt
• Salt
• Soft, white mineral

More clues leading to the result ALABASTER

• Vase material
• Snow-white
• "Thine __ cities gleam"
• Smooth and white
• Gypsum variety
• Figurine material, perhaps
• Onyx marble.
• Smooth and white.
• Variety of gypsum.
• Gypsum.