Borax is found to have _______ tetrahedral unit(s).

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Borax are known as sodium borate, sodium tetraborate or disodium tetraborate is an important boron compound, it is a salt of boric acid.
It is described as $N a_{2} B_{4} O_{7} .10 . H_{2} O$ .
There are two four coordinate boron atoms(two $B O_{4}$ tetrahedral) and three-coordinate boron atoms(two $B O_{3}$ triangles).

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