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FILMS prepared from dispersions of zinc dust in sodium silica media of a high silica ratio of about Na2O : SiO2/1 : 3.8 by weight (Pass, A., and Meason, M. J. F., private communication) have been reported to become substantially insoluble in water within a few hours without the aid of curing agents previously needed to produce satisfactory air-drying zinc silicate paints1. The mechanism of the formation of these films is only partially understood, and in the course of work undertaken to elucidate it, changes in viscosity occurring when zinc and other pigments are dispersed in silicate media are being examined.
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RISCHBIETH, J., MARSON, F. A Coating with Antifouling Properties from the Reaction between Cuprous Oxide and Sodium Silicate. Nature 192, 748 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/192748a0
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