What is silicone?
Chemistry For Your Life
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The Role of Bond Links in Silicones
Silicone is a huge class of compounds. It's not just those rubber spatulas. So it can be cross-linked or not. And I very briefly mentioned this at the beginning. It can be bonded to four things, so it's bonded, you know, to an oxygen, silicone, oxygen, silicone in a chain. But there's also functional groups coming off of the silicone. You can think of it as up and down too. Okay. Here's one more question. Is that also a bond thing here? Because I don't know if I've interacted with like a silicone that has been rigid. That was the picture I had in my mind. Yeah.
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