soluble glass

English

Noun

soluble glass (countable and uncountable, plural soluble glasses)

  1. A silicate of sodium or potassium, found commercially as a white, glassy mass, a stony powder, or dissolved as a viscous, syrupy liquid; used for making fabrics fireproof, for hardening artificial stone, etc.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for soluble glass in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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