This test is meant for detecting the coloured cations. When borax is heated on a platinum loop it swells up into a white porous mass first which on subsequent heating melts into a shining transparent glass bead (B2O3).
When this glass bead is heated with coloured compounds, a characteristic colour of metaborate is formed.
However, in a reducing flame, a different colour is obtained.
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