Encyclopedia > Silicone

  Article Content

Silicone

Silicones are certain chemical compounds which consist of polymers made up of silicon-oxygen and silicon-carbon bonds. They can vary in consistency from slimy goo to hard rubber. Most famously (or infamously), silicone was and still is used as a filler in breast augmentation implants. Silicone is also used in the toy Silly Putty.

Silicone ("silly-kohn") is often mistaken colloquially for elemental silicon ("silly-kahn"), because of the similarity in pronunciation, but they are entirely different. For example, in the Shakira song "Objection (Tango)", the lyrics "next to her cheap silicon I look minimal" should be "next to her cheap silicone I look minimal".



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Great River, New York

... versus $58,125 for females. The per capita income for the town is $35,509. 7.9% of the population and 6.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 36.7 ms