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Mel Winchester

Why are sodium silicate solution coloured ?

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Autoclaving silica (e.g. quartz) with strong NaOH or KOH solution may cause severe corrosion on some types of steel. Milling quartz sand could perhaps also cause metallic contamination. Transmission visible light spectroscopy may possibly help to identify colouring ion(s). Dark amber colour could, in principle, be considered compatible with combined Fe(III) and Mn(III) contamination (Fe2O3 and Mn2O3).

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Charles Brown  Follow

Thank you for the answer, Sir. Even when you treat rice husk silica after acid leaching with NaOH, the liquor is intense (brown to black) in colour. I wanted to know, the reason for the intense colour. Acid treatment to the basic solution produces white amorphous silica.

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Perhaps of some interest for your query ― On silica extracted from rice husk: https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_make_nano_silica_from_extracted_silica_rice_husk

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David S. Rose  Follow

That was a useful link

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