Sodium Silicate Solution for Pottery - Creates a Crack Texture on The Ceramic Surface,16 fl oz / 473 ml

This product allows for interesting crackle effects on clay pots, results can vary with interesting outcomes depending on the glaze, slip and firing technique, highly recommend 🌻

It worked great to deflocculate the clay slip.

This is a nice clean, clear solution of sodium silicate specifically for use with pottery with instructions included for creating a cracked, textured effect. Also known as waterglass solution, my first encounter with it was back in the 1950's with a little jar that came in my chemistry set. I don't remember where I heard it at the time, whether from my father of the manual that came with the set, but it was used to coat eggs to help preserve them. The fun part, however, was using it to grow what the lab manual called "Colorful Silicates". By adding some sodium silicate solution to water then placing certain chemical salts carefully into it, you could get colorful silicates growing up from the bottom of a jar much like stalagmites from the floor of a cave. I won't be using this to preserve any eggs, but some kids might be fascinated by watching some silicates grow. I will have to look up that old chemistry set manual to see what salts they recommend for doing this.