- Product Families:Inorganics, Technical Salts & Inorganics
- Chemical Family:Silicates, Sodium Salts
METSO BEADS® 2048 are free-flowing, water-soluble beaded powders composed of metasilicate with a silica (SiO₂) to soda (Na₂O) ratio of 1. These sodium metasilicates are manufactured from sodium silicate glass, created by melting high-purity sand with soda ash in furnaces.