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The element that let rubber go to finishing school and date a human body.
means A synthetic polymer made of silicon, oxygen, and other elements, prized for being flexible, heat-resistant, and water-repellent — used in everything from bakeware to breast implants to caulk.
from Coined in the early 1900s by English chemist Frederic Kipp, built from 'silicon' (the element, itself named from the Latin 'silex,' meaning flint or hard stone) plus the chemical suffix '-one,' which was used to flag an analogy with ketones. The name was a bit of a guess about the molecule's structure — chemists later realized the analogy wasn't quite exact, but by then 'silicone' had stuck for good.
- not plastic
- backbone is silicon-oxygen, not carbon, hence the heat resistance
- in your kitchen
- bakeware survives 500°F because that bond barely flinches
- in implants
- first silicone breast implants debuted in 1962, Houston
- name mix-up
- silicon is the chip, silicone is the squishy cousin