silicone rubber

silicone rubber
noun
made from silicone elastomers; retains flexibility resilience and tensile strength over a wide temperature range
Hypernyms: ↑rubber, ↑synthetic rubber

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noun
: rubber made from silicone elastomers and characterized by its retention of flexibility, resilience, and tensile strength over a wide temperature range (as from -100° to +500° F) and its resistance to weathering, the electric arc, and many chemicals

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any of the synthetic rubbers made from silicone elastomers.
[1940-45]

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silicone rubber,
a rubber made of oxygen and silicon that can keep its rubberlike properties at much higher and lower temperatures than natural rubber or any other type of synthetic rubber. Silicon rubber is used in such products as seals, gaskets, and other parts of machinery exposed to high temperatures.

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