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Silicone

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-005815

A broad family of synthetic organosiloxane polymers containing a repeating silicon-oxygen backbone with organic side groups attached via carbon-silicon bonds. Depending on their structure, they are classified as liquids, gels, and elastomers.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-005815
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesMedical Subject Headings 2014; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (CC BY 4.0)
See alsoSiloxanes; Silicon; Polydimethylsiloxane
TranslationsSpanish: silicona
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-005815",
  "term": "Silicone",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "A broad family of synthetic organosiloxane polymers containing a repeating silicon-oxygen backbone with organic side groups attached via carbon-silicon bonds. Depending on their structure, they are classified as liquids, gels, and elastomers.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "siloxanes",
    "silicon",
    "polydimethylsiloxane"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Medical Subject Headings 2014",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "silicona"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/silicone/"
}

Record 5,729 of 6,798 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.