Some babies with torticollis also will develop a flat head (positional plagiocephaly) on one or both sides from lying in one direction all the time. Or they might develop a small neck lump or bump, which is similar to a knot in a tense muscle. Both of these conditions tend to go away as the torticollis gets better.
Sodium Silicate is formed when metal cations (sodium) combine with silica. Sodium Silicate functions as a buffering agent, corrosion inhibitor and a pH adjuster in cosmetics. Buffering agents, commonly called buffers, are chemicals which have the property of maintaining the pH of an aqueous medium in a narrow range even if small amounts of acids or bases are added.
A buffer is simply a mixture of a weak acid and its conjugate base or a weak base and its conjugate acid. Buffers work by reacting with any added acid or base to control the pH.For example, let's consider the action of a buffer composed of the weak base ammonia, NH 3, and its conjugate acid, NH 4 + .When HCl is added to that buffer, the NH 3 soaks up the acid's proton to become NH 4 + .ow Buffers Work. As you have seen in calculating the pH of solutions, only a small amount of a strong acid is necessary to drastically alter the pH. For certain experiments, however, it is desirable to keep a fairly constant pH while acids or bases are added to the solution either by reaction or by the experimenter.