Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dimethylpolysiloxane

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dimethylpolysilox-ane
IPA

41

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

2

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Polydimethylsiloxane.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The complaint says that a McDonald's nutritional brochure described the fish in its Filet-O-Fish as being "100% cod with a pinch of salt to taste after cooking". But a list of ingredients from by^([sic]) the company includes "modified corn starch, dextrose, cellulose gum, citric acid and an anti-foaming agent called dimethylpolysiloxane"."
"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."

Usage

Inflected Forms

dimethylpolysiloxanes (plural)

Questions

What does dimethylpolysiloxane mean?: Polydimethylsiloxane.

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