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When someone says something is “silicone” or “silicone based”, they’re likely not talking about it being the raw element “silicon”. Instead, they’re referring to it being a material based on silicon.
It’s very much analogous to carbon and plastic. Many types of plastics like plastic bags, plastic toys, plastic packaging, plastic food containers, are all based on carbon. And yet, all those type of plastics are different from one another. Carbon is also the chemical basis behind natural oils like vegetable oil , which makes things slippery too. Or, you can press carbon into a diamond, which is very hard and rough, and glue thousands of tiny diamonds to stuff to make industrial grinders and cutters.
Likewise, with silicon, you can make it non-slip, sticky, or a lubricant by how you prepare it, and what else it’s mixed with (so to speak), just like with carbon.
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