U+1F743 Alchemical Symbol for Borax-2
U+1F743 was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. The word that U+1F743 forms with similar adjacent characters prevents a line break inside it.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Borax (also referred to as sodium borate, tincal () and tincar ()) is a salt (ionic compound), a hydrated or anhydrous borate of sodium, with the chemical formula Na2H20B4O17 (also written as Na2B4O7Β·10H2O).
It is a colorless crystalline solid that dissolves in water to make a basic solution.
It is commonly available in powder or granular form and has many industrial and household uses, including as a pesticide, as a metal soldering flux, as a component of glass, enamel, and pottery glazes, for tanning of skins and hides, for artificial aging of wood, as a preservative against wood fungus, and as a pharmaceutic alkalizer. In chemical laboratories, it is used as a buffering agent.
The terms tincal and tincar refer to native borax, historically mined from dry lake beds in various parts of Asia.
Representations
| System | Representation |
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| NΒΊ | 128835 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 9D 83 |
| UTF-16 | D8 3D DF 43 |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F7 43 |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%9D%83 |
| HTML hex reference | 🝃 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°ΕΈΒΖ |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 95 30 9E 39 |
Elsewhere
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