You're going to need some sodium silicate. The Week. US Edition. SUBSCRIBE & SAVE. ... They're actually microscopic crystal structures many times smaller than the width of a human hair.

The print medium is sodium silicate solution, commonly known as waterglass, ... The result may not be the fine crystal glass you may be expecting, ...

Discover dancing fluorescent droplets, crystal gardens and watery clouds of chemicals in this new video compilation from BeautifulChemistry.net. ... (water solution of sodium silicate, Na2SiO3).

This caused the pH of the water surrounding the crystals to get lower, which in turn caused the dissolved sodium silicate to form into a layer of silica on them, thus extending their growth process.

In this ancient experiment, first introduced by Glauber in 1646, crystals of transition metal salts are dropped into a solution of sodium silicate (water glass) and coloured plant-like growths ...

Spitzer Catches Star Cooking Up Comet Crystals Date: May 14, 2009 Source: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Summary: Scientists have long wondered how tiny silicate crystals, which need sizzling high ...

They detected the infrared signature of silicate crystals on the disk of dust and gas surrounding the star EX Lupi during one of its frequent flare-ups seen by Spitzer in April 2008.