As it turned
out, Munich professor Johann Fuchs discovered much more than he thought. His
glass water, which began to be transported in barrels and bottles, proved to be
miracle-working. If, for example, eggs are dipped in it, they will be covered then with a shiny,
dense, impermeable film. Such eggs can be stored for a whole year - they will
not deteriorate and will remain as tasty, as they are. The towers of warships
are coated with oil paint. They do this not for beauty, but because the paint
protects the metal from rust. But metal cannot catch fire, and paint,
unfortunately, can. And it often happens that during a battle a fire breaks out
on a ship: a red-hot fragment of a shell sets fire to the paint. If you mix the
paint with liquid glass, then such paint will not only be durable but also
refractory - it cannot catch fire.
Car Body Covered With Liquid Glass |
Not only
plaster, paint, eggshell can be strengthened with liquid glass, but the same
can be done with concrete, and with cement, and with brick. Saturated with
glass, they become much stronger. You can make artificial stones of any shape,
which are no less durable than natural. To do this, you need to mix a bunch of
sand with liquid glass. But if it is possible to strengthen concrete, brick,
cement, plaster with glass, then why is it impossible to strengthen the road in
the same way?
Repair of the Road with the Addition of Liquid Glass |
The first such
highway was built in 1918 in Switzerland. It was made of gravel and impregnated
with a mixture of liquid glass and fine sand, so that it turned out like a
stone crust, tightly stretched to the road and protecting it from damage. Since
then, many thousands of kilometers of such glass - silicated, as they are
called - roads have been built around the world. Let the sun beat down, - this
road does not give dust. Let it rain, - there will never be dirt on this road.
And it serves two and even three times longer than an ordinary highway. Not
only the road but also the very soil, the very earth can be strengthened with
liquid glass, protecting from landslides and subsidence of the soil.