dimethylpolysiloxane

dimethylpolysiloxane (countable and uncountable, plural dimethylpolysiloxanes)

1. Polydimethylsiloxane.
   • 2003 February 21, David Teather, “‘McFrankenstein’ returns to haunt fast food chain in new court action”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     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".

   • 2009 October 4, Pete Wells, “Happy-Meal Me”, in New York Times‎:

     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.

• polydimethylsiloxane