Drinking the alcohol wash...LOL
When I tried my experiment a few years ago and cracked some eggs that were in sodium silicate, the stink of rotten eggs was so bad it ran all of us out of the house. We wondered if the inside of the egg, being potential life (at the cellular level, not the baby chick level) did the life/death thing on its own. It was so disgusting that I never tried it again.
“When I tried my experiment a few years ago and cracked some eggs that were in sodium silicate”
This is confusing. When you say “in” sodium silicate, you don’t mean that they were stored in it do you?
The sodium silicate deposits a layer of glass when it drys. Actually exposure to atmospheric CO2 is what does the magic.
On an interesting side note, take some clean dry sand and saturate it with the stuff and put it in the microwave for a bit. It will fuse the sand together and you will have sand stone...