Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Materials Facet
3. Materials (hierarchy name)
4. materials (substances)
5. [materials by composition]
6. inorganic material
7. [potassium and potassium compounds]

Anotations

Scope note:

A glass-forming soluble silicate salt with many applications. In conservation, potassium silicate in solution has been applied, for example, as a consolidant for fragile stone and earthen structures and as a binder for the pictorial reintegration of outdoor mural paintings.