Luis RamÃ­rez married Dominga Leyva October 11, 1847 in JesÃºs Nazareno Temple, Ojinaga. She was the daughter of Juan Leyva and Micaela Valdez. Luis and his family lived in Ojinaga until 1859, when they moved to Presidio, Texas, where he was working as a farmer.
sodium metasilicate. noun, Chemistry. 1. a white, granular sodium silicate, Na 2 SiO 3 , soluble in water: used in detergents and in bleaching and cleaning products. Origin of sodium metasilicate. 1925-1930. First recorded in 1925-30; meta- + silicate.
The main use for the chemical is as an antioxidant or chemical sterilant. It is a disulfite and is chemically very similar to sodium metabisulfite, with which it is sometimes used interchangeably. Potassium metabisulfite is generally preferred out of the two as it does not contribute sodium to the diet. Potassium metabisulfite is sometimes used to precipitate gold from solution in aqua regia (as an alternative to sodium sulfite). 2  It is a component of certain photographic developers and solutions used in photographic fixing.