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SILICONE POLYMER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of a large class of siloxanes that are unusually stable over a wide range of temperatures; used in lubricants and adhesives and coatings and synthetic rubber and electrical insulation
Synonyms:
silicone; silicone polymer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("silicone polymer" is a kind of...):
polymer (a naturally occurring or synthetic compound consisting of large molecules made up of a linked series of repeated simple monomers)
siloxane (any of a large class of compounds that have alternate silicon and oxygen atoms)
Meronyms (substance of "silicone polymer"):
atomic number 14; Si; silicon (a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "silicone polymer"):
bouncing putty (a soft elastic silicone polymer that increases in elasticity with the application of force; used in the center of golf balls and as shock-absorbent padding)
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