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need advise: high alkali crucible melt
I am planning to make sodium/potassium silicate through the furnace
route in a crucible furnace. I am unfamilar with precautions necessary for very high flux mixtures as opposed to regular soda glass. Will alkali "fumes" hurt my kiln. Will molten alkali destroy a regular glass crucible? I have easy access to a small electric ceramics kiln (in my backyard), and also to a large gas crucible furnace built for metal casting (acquaintance's back yard). For my first attempt I plan to use sodium hydroxide and glass powder and fuse them at only 600-700C for 3-6 hours. The mix will be about equal weights sodium hydroxide and glass powder. I would then pour that molten mixture into Ice water and crush the powder in order to dissolve it. Does anyone have any experience or learning regarding this? |
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