What is silicone? When it comes to silicone, many people may find it unfamiliar. It seems that they rarely come into contact with it in daily life, and occasionally hear popular terms such as silicone dolls. However, in fact, after understanding it, you will find that it covers every corner of our lives, and you will be shocked by its widespread application today. Here are some common products in daily life:
1. Silicone kitchen utensils
Due to its high and low temperature resistance, silicone can be used between -40 and 230 degrees Celsius. Its material is relatively soft, stable, resistant to impact and deformation, non stick to the pot, and easy to clean. It is widely used in daily life and is a new breakthrough for traditional kitchen utensils, such as baking tray mats, cake baking trays, elastic baking trays, baking tray molds, pressure cookers, sealing rings on rice cookers, and sealing rings inside lunch boxes.
2. Food molds
Food grade mold silicone is made of high-quality silicone, processed through scientific formula and advanced technology, and has passed FDA food grade certification. It is a type of environmentally friendly silicone, non-toxic and odorless, mainly used for the mold manufacturing of food, candy molds, chocolate molds, cake molds, silicone ice grids, silicone pacifiers, and other food products. It is an additive silicone product.
3. Toy manufacturing
Toys made of silicone rubber have weather resistance, are easy to dye, and can be disinfected at high temperatures. They have excellent tensile strength, are not easily deformed, are non-toxic and harmless, have strong chemical inertness, and are harmless to children's bodies. They are ideal toy making materials.
4. Application of silicone protective sleeves
Because the silicone protective cover material is transparent, soft, elastic, and not easily deformed, using it as a casing will give people an affinity and will not affect machine operation. In addition, headphones with silicone casing also have sound insulation effect. Silicone protective covers are commonly used on personal consumer electronics products such as MP3/Mp4 players, iPods, PDAs, mobile phones, PSPs, digital cameras, GPS, etc.
5. The application of silicone in the home appliance industry
Silicone has also been applied in the home appliance industry, such as sealing glass doors in microwave ovens, sealing coffee pots and water tanks, sealing water heaters and heat exchangers, bonding sterilization lamps in refrigerators, coating control circuit boards in washing machines, sealing and bonding display screens, sealing the bottom of steam irons and steam chambers, and coating control circuit boards in air conditioning.

In other places, visitors to museums can see some restored and replicated cultural relics, most of which are made of silicone material. Silicone products are also found in home decoration, exquisite and fashionable handicrafts, lighting, etc. Silicone products are also very common in the medical and electronic industries. Silicone has achieved rapid development since the 1990s, with an annual output of over 200000 tons, which is the world's largest. It is resistant to high temperatures, has a long service life, corrosion, is not compressed, not easily deformed, waterproof and moisture-proof. More importantly, silicone products are completely non-toxic and environmentally friendly, and can be recycled. These factors have promoted the broad development prospects of silicone, and its application will become more and more widespread.