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potassium silicate

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potassium silicate [pə′tas·ē·əm ′sil·ə‚kāt]
(inorganic chemistry)
SiO2=K2O A compound existing in two forms, solution and solid (glass); as a solution, it is colorless to turgid in water, and is used in paints and coatings, as an arc-electrode binder and catalyst and in detergents; as a solid, it is colorless and water-soluble solid, and is used in glass manufacture and for dyeing and bleaching.


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One was a yellow glass called lead-tin yellow, and the other was blue smalt, a potassium silicate that derived its color from small amounts of cobalt.
 
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