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To: quattro@coimbra.ans.net
Subject: Silicone
From: rawaudi@frugal.com (RWheeldon)
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 17:27:09 -0700
Cc: shields@tembel.org (Michael Shields)
Sender: owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net


>Maybe I'm confused, but I thought oil and silicone were entirely different
>classes of materials.

I'm no chemist but I believe silicones are a whole range of products in
which one or more carbon atoms in a hydrocarbon moelcule is replaced by a
silicon atom.  Thus you can have silicone rubber, silicone grease, silicone
oil, etc.

Regards,
Bob Wheeldon
'90 V8Q
Principal Engineer
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
robert a wheeldon@boeing.com
rawaudi@frugal.com

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