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dimethylpolysiloxane

dimethylpolysiloxane noun: polydimethylsiloxane.

Noun

dimethylpolysiloxane (countable and uncountable, plural dimethylpolysiloxanes)

  1. Polydimethylsiloxane.
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    • With the fries and McNuggets, we enter the polysyllabic realm of ingredients I don’t keep in my kitchen: mono- and diglycerides, tertiary butylhydroquinone, a number of phosphates, dimethylpolysiloxane.2009 October 4, Pete Wells, “Happy-Meal Me”, in New York Times

Forms of dimethylpolysiloxane

pluraldimethylpolysiloxanes

Questions about dimethylpolysiloxane

What does dimethylpolysiloxane mean?
Dimethylpolysiloxane means polydimethylsiloxane.
What part of speech is dimethylpolysiloxane?
Dimethylpolysiloxane is a noun.
What is the plural of dimethylpolysiloxane?
The plural of dimethylpolysiloxane is dimethylpolysiloxanes.

Words near dimethylpolysiloxane in the dictionary

  1. dimethylphenol
  2. dimethylphenols
  3. dimethylphenyl
  4. dimethylphenylpiperazinium
  5. dimethylphenylsilanol
  6. dimethylpolysiloxane
  7. dimethylpolysiloxanes
  8. dimethylpropane
  9. dimethylpyridine
  10. dimethylpyridines
  11. dimethylpyrimidine

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