of procedures used in road construction those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that other elements of both the composition and method may be desirable or necessary to implement the present invention because such elements are well known in the art and do not facilitate a clearer understanding of present invention a description of such elements may not be provided herein the stabilizer of the present invention comprises a non toxic water soluble chemical composition used as a material stabilizer for road bases the disclosed stabilizer generally comprises a soluble sodium silicate in a water base otherwise known as u201c waterglass u201d the preferred embodiment of the stabilizer contemplates an aqueous solution consisting of 28 30 percent silicon dioxide by weight and 8 5 9 5 percent sodium oxide by weight with an overall specific gravity ranging from 1 37 to 1 42 and an average viscosity of 150 at 20 u00b0 c the average weight ratio of silicon dioxide to sodium oxide for the stabilizer should be between 3 1 and 3 4 a commercial version of the stabilizer is available from ineos silicas americas located in joliet ill under the trade name crystal u00ae 78 application of the stabilizer.