Liquid silicone or liquid silicone rubber, it is often unclear whether you are looking for liquid silicone or liquid silicone rubber, or both. The purpose of this article is to answer the above questions.

Firstly, liquid silicone rubber is a type of silicone rubber that exists in a liquid state. But we often refer to liquid silicone rubber as liquid silicone, and in fact, many of our common daily necessities are processed from liquid silicone rubber. Like liquid silicone nipples and liquid silicone bottles.

Liquid silicone rubber

There are many classification methods for liquid silicone rubber. Additive liquid silicone rubber is generally colorless and transparent, while condensed liquid silicone rubber is mostly milky white, and of course, they can all be colored with color paste. Liquid silicone rubber based adhesives are generally odorless. Liquid silicone rubber is mostly non-toxic, especially for daily use. A small variety of liquid silicone rubber cannot pass ROHS testing and is considered slightly toxic. These products are generally used as molds in industry. Liquid silicone rubber is widely used, such as silicone nipples, silicone bottles, silicone cable accessories, silicone watch straps, silicone phone cases, silicone bottles, silicone bowls, silicone nose holders, silicone earplugs, silicone diving goggles, various types of silicone hoses, and so on.

Liquid silicone rubber can be divided into single component liquid silicone and dual component liquid silicone according to its packaging form. According to its cross-linking mechanism, it can be divided into two types: condensed liquid silicone and added liquid silicone. Condensed liquid silicone rubber can be vulcanized into elastomers at room temperature, hence it is also known as room temperature vulcanized silicone rubber (RTV rubber).