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2. 20 Easy Methods for Getting Rid of Ants Outside Naturally - AOL

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   Borax is an age-old solution that can effectively get rid of ants outside. The powdery white substance which is a popular household cleaner is toxic to ants and can disrupt their digestive systems.

3. How To Get Rid of Ants From Your Home With 4 Simple Tricks - AOL

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   Clean Like Crazy. Ants are attracted to crumbs, spills, and sticky messes. To keep them away, keep the kitchen as clean as possible. Dirty dishes left in the sink can attract ants and all sorts of ...

4. Disodium octaborate - Wikipedia

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   Disodium octaborate is a borate of sodium, a chemical compound of sodium, boron, and oxygen — a salt with elemental formula Na 2 B 8 O 13 or (Na +) 2 [B 8 O 13] 2−, also written as Na 2 O·4B 2 O 3.

5. People are eating borax. Why? Here's what experts say ... - AOL

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   People are ingesting borax. Also known by its chemical name sodium borate decahydrate, borax is a salt typically used to kill ants and boost laundry detergent, among other household cleaning needs ...

6. Borax - Wikipedia

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   Because it is slow-acting, worker ants will carry the borax to their nests and poison the rest of the colony. [23] Borax is used in various household laundry and cleaning products, [24] [25] including the 20 Mule Team Borax laundry booster, Boraxo powdered hand soap, and some tooth bleaching formulas. [26] [27]

7. Glechoma hederacea - Wikipedia

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   However, borax is toxic to ants and to animals at only slightly higher concentrations, and does not break down in the environment. In addition to adverse long-term effects on soil or groundwater , [ 18 ] [ 19 ] recent research discounts the very efficacy of borax treatment, primarily because finding the correct concentration for a given area is ...