SODIUMSILICATE
Sodium silicate
Sodium silicate is the common name for a compounds with the formula Na2nO. A well know member of this series is sodium metasilicate, Na2SiO3. Also known as waterglass or liquid glass, these materials are available in aqueous solution and in solid form. The pure compositions are colourless or white, but commercial samples are often greenish or blue owing to the presence of iron-containing impurities.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Sodium silicate
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