Question

What are silicone?please let me know the small and suitable answer for it

Answer 1

Silicones, also known as polysiloxanes, are polymers that include any inert, synthetic compound made up of repeating units of siloxane, which is a chain of alternating silicon atoms and oxygen atoms, combined with carbon, hydrogen, and sometimes other elements.

Answer 2

alkyl chloride reacts with silicon to form dialkyl dichloridesilane and chlorosilane . chlorosilane on hydrolysis gives dialkyl di hydroxy silane which on polymerisation gives silicones