https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/94aece98-5f73-43b6-bf36-1b54daf7038e We make sodium silicate from drain cleaner and those little gel beads you find packaged with electronic items for humidity control. The procedure is really simple, just make a solution of 10mL with 4-8grams of sodium hydroxide, use the full 8 grams if you want stoichiometric sodium silicate, and 4 grams if you want "liquid glass" solution for doing the chemical garden experiments. Heat the solution and add in 6 grams worth of crushed silica gel beads. The finer the better. if they aren't dissolving, you might need to add more water. Once it's dissolved, you'll have a concentrated solution of sodium silicate. For experiments using Sodium Silicate solution, check out these videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a45jZOc7PRY Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:28:08 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://stream.echo6.co https://stream.echo6.co/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/94aece98-5f73-43b6-bf36-1b54daf7038e All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://stream.echo6.co/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.