...I just gotta tell 'ya: S-I-L-I-C-O- N-E... is used to make

titties bigger.  S-I-L-I-C-O-N is the sand you refer to, and what they make
computer chips outta...

Jack Beale

Jack,

    I have an engineer friend that this silicon/silicone usage drives

crazy (grin - you know who you are)!  You are in good company here.

Ken Powell

 > Jack Beale wrote:

Ken,

    I guess that, being trained as an engineer, having a metallurgist

father, and spending 20+ years in S-I-L-I-C-O-N Valley has warped MY mind
too...!

    I also have a "thing" about the pronunciation of the "S-word" as

well...  It's really one syllable you know...

Jack Beale
jack.beale@att.net

Well! - I gritted my teeth and put up with this nonsense  long enough..
You guys are all wrong - it is neither silicone - usually a fluid or gel
of which one of the ingredients is silicon, nor is it the metallic element
silicon - but silica , an oxide of silicon usually in the SiO2 family.
Vance

 
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