What's silicone ?

Silicone

The second most abundant element on Earth, silicon is found in everyday materials like sand, clay, granite, and many minerals. As a raw material, it is extremely useful. Some products are built from silicon in its elemental state. For example, a small wafer of highly purified silicon is found in virtually every computer. Typically, silicon is processed in a number of ways to create a huge family of products, including building materials, lubricants, silicone sealants, and silicone adhesives.

In fact, silicones represent a huge group of products that share useful common traits like stability at high temperatures and resistance to age, sunlight, moisture, temperature extremes, and exposure to chemicals.

It is used in a wide rande of industrial products, from the beginnings of civilization (making of glass) to the latest technologies (computer ships). This substance is non-toxic. (which is why it is authorized by the FDA for breast implants), contrary to many other materials used to make kitchen ustensils, whose chemicals finaly ends in tiny bits in your plate with wear...