Silicone vs Silicon, What is Silicone Rubber? What is Silicon？

 

Silicone rubber is one of the most widely used silicone products with the largest output. Silicone rubber is an extraordinary material

The main performance and application of silicone rubber products: according to its vulcanization temperature, silicone rubber can be divided into high temperature (heating) vulcanization type and room temperature vulcanization type two categories, high temperature rubber is mainly used to manufacture all kinds of silicone rubber products, and room temperature rubber is mainly used as adhesive, potting material or mold.

Silicone rubber is typically supplied in one of three forms:

• Room temperature vulcanization (RTV) kit
• Liquid (liquid silicone rubber)
• High consistency rubber (HCR)

Silicon is abundant, relatively easy to mine and very useful!

At JWT rubber, we're interested in silicon as the key ingredient in silicone rubber - a leading edge polymer which is replacing many hydrocarbon based products.

Silicone and Silicon the words are often used interchangeably but there are different. silicon is natural chemical element, silicone is a man-made polymer derived from silicon. There are also differences with the applications of silicon and silicone. silicone has widespread use in industrial applications.