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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The art or process of mural painting with pigments mixed with water glass.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A method of painting in which water-glass serves as the connecting medium between the color and its substratum.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A style of painting on plastered walls or stone, in which the colors are rendered permanent by sprinklings of water, in which is mixed a proportion of soluble glass (a silicate of soda).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
painting ofmurals usingpigments mixed withwater glass
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His name is to this day associated with soluble glass, an alkaline silicate used in a special kind of fresco painting, called stereochromy, so much so that sometimes it is called Fuchs's soluble glass.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Soluble glass has also been used in Germany to a great extent for mural painting, known as stereochromy.
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