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water glass

Common name for sodium metasilicate (Na2SiO3). It is a colourless, jellylike substance that dissolves readily in water to give a solution used for preserving eggs and fireproofing porous materials such as cloth, paper, and wood. It is also used as an adhesive for paper and cardboard and in the manufacture of soap and silica gel, a substance that absorbs moisture.



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Elsewhere in the park, at Lower Geyser Basin, where we stopped to see the Fountain Paint Pots, we were treated to an abrupt and sustained eruption of Clepsydra Geyser - so vigorous that the steam cloud engulfed part of the boardwalk, scattering a handful of visitors.
TIMING IS EVERYTHING ON GEYSER WALK by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Her Clepsydra, 2000, a bottle suspended mouth down from a stainless-steel brace, drips an indigo solution onto the fl oor, as if to inaugurate a ceremony fusing western antisepsis and African ritual.
"THE MAGIC CITY" by Ziolkowski, Thad / Artforum International
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