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Any of a large class of compounds that have alternate silicon and oxygen atoms
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siloxane
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A siloxane is a functional group in organosilicon chemistry with the Si–O–Si linkage. The parent siloxanes include the oligomeric and polymeric hydrides with the formulae H(OSiH)OH and (OSiH). Siloxanes also include branched compounds, the defining feature ...
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n. (context organic chemistry English) any of a class of compound having a short repeating unit of silicon and oxygen atoms (either in a chain or a ring) with organic side chains
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n. any of a large class of compounds that have alternate silicon and oxygen atoms
Usage examples of siloxane.
If you care for precise details, it was a diluted solution of polydimethyl siloxane that I made a few modifications to, a turbocharged version if you will.
Each passageway through which the winning ball must travel was given a small trace of the modified polydimethyl siloxane solution as well.
So long as the silicon remained bound as siloxanes, not much of a problem, health-wise.