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Definition of Soluble glass
1. Noun. A viscous glass consisting of sodium silicate in solution; used as a cement or as a protective coating and to preserve eggs.
Medical Definition of Soluble glass
1. A silicate of potassium or sodium, soluble in hot water but solid at ordinary temperatures; used for fixed dressings. Synonym: water glass. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soluble Glass
Literary usage of Soluble glass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Technology: Or, Chemistry, Applied to the Arts and to Manufactures by Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Walter Rogers Johnson (1849)
"soluble glass. The silicates of the alkalies which are not mixed with any proportion
of earthy silicates are of practical importance in a very different ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Potash water glass is more soluble than soda water glass, and if both metals be
present a still more soluble glass, called double soluble glass, ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"By triturating soluble glass with quick lime, the silicate rapidly hardens, ...
With oxide of 7.ine, soluble glass forms a viscous liquid, containing some ..."
4. Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition by Edward Henry Knight (1880)
"Although the manufacture of soluble glass does not strictly belong to the ...
Of late soluble glass has been used with good effect as a preservative coat- ..."
5. Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to the Arts and by Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Henry Watts, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1865)
"The treatment of the purified gun-cotton with soluble glass, which forms one of
the features of the Austrian system of manufacture, was stated by the ..."
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