sodium silicate
Americannoun
noun
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Also called: soluble glass. a substance having the general formula, Na 2 O. x SiO 2 , where x varies between 3 and 5, existing as an amorphous powder or present in a usually viscous aqueous solution See water glass
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any sodium salt of orthosilicic acid or metasilicic acid
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CleanTok is in love with The Pink Stuff – a rosy cleaning paste that’s made from baking soda, quartz, sodium silicate and soap.
From Fox News ● Nov. 27, 2021
But the increased acidity seemed to reduce the effectiveness of the sodium silicate.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2019
Dr. Jones also experimented with whether plantlike forms could grow without gravity, putting them in a liquid solution of metal salt crystals and sodium silicate, known as a chemical garden.
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2017
A blob of sodium silicate had clogged up a test tube, so I heated it over an alcohol lamp, intending to melt it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2015
Calcium metasilicate, CaSiO3, occurs in nature as monoclinic crystals known as tabular spar or wollastonite; it may be prepared artificially from solutions of calcium chloride and sodium silicate.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
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