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Silica vs Silicone - What's the difference?

silica | silicone |

As nouns the difference between silica and silicone

is that silica is silicon dioxide while silicone is any of a class of inert, semi-inorganic polymeric compounds (polysiloxanes), that have a wide range of thermal stability and extreme water repellence, used in a very wide range of industrial applications, and in prosthetic replacements for body parts.

silica

English

Noun

  • Silicon dioxide.
  • Any of the silica group of the silicate minerals.
  • * 1993 , Historic American Building Survey, Town of Clayburg: Refractories Company Town , National Park Service, 2:
    • Its Blair County property was sited at the foot of ganister-covered Dunnings Mountain to compete with the Mount Union plants making silica bricks for the steel industry.

    Synonyms

    * when used as an anti-caking agent

    Derived terms

    * silica gel * silica glass * silicate * silica wool * siliceous * silici- * silicic * silicide

    Related terms

    * silicon

    See also

    * quartz * sand

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    References

    silicone

    English

    (wikipedia silicone)

    Noun

  • (chemistry) Any of a class of inert, semi-inorganic polymeric compounds (polysiloxanes), that have a wide range of thermal stability and extreme water repellence, used in a very wide range of industrial applications, and in prosthetic replacements for body parts

    • Derived terms

    * siliconed * silicone grease * siliconing * silicone rubber

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