I would guess that you have an indefinite mixture of all sorts of things.
Really heating silica and sodium hydroxide is the way to go to make sodium silicate, the ingredients are cheaply available on a kilo scale.
How big do you want to go?
Sodium silicate is cheaply and readily available as well so is it really worth making on a big scale?
Some people on here seem intent on doing loads of work and using up expensive chemicals and / or power to make something they could buy cheaply and
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