What is silicone oil?
Silicone oil is a general term for silicone fluids, which is synthesized and produced by reacting with CH3Cl, distillation separation, hydrolysis, polymerization and other processes using monomer Si (silicon metal) as raw material.
Structurally, it is mainly divided into two categories: one is linear dimethicone (PDMS); The other category is cyclic volatile methylsiloxanes (VMS) with low relative molecular weight. Among them, linear dimethicone is the most common, and its dosage is also the largest and the application area is the widest. In this article, we refer to "silicone oil" specifically refers to linear dimethicone.
Because silicone oil has many excellent physical and chemical properties, such as odorless, colorless and transparent, good temperature stability, easy spreading, hydrophobic, easy film formation, chemical inertness, UV radiation resistance, defoaming, insulation, etc., it is widely used in household care products, medicine, pharmacy, food, textiles, ink, papermaking, fermentation, coatings, printing and dyeing and wastewater treatment and other industries.