Silicone rubber includes macromolecular organosiloxanic polymers, with a very good resistance to high and low temperature.
Moreover, they show good dielectric properties, low permanent deformation by compression, very good resistance to oxygen and ozone. In relation to other elastomers at room temperature, they have greater gas permeability, they are non-combustible.
Silicone rubbers are three times more expensive than nitrile rubber, so they should be used only in particularly hard conditions of temperature.

Temperature range -60°C ÷ +200°C, short-term up to +230°C
Hardness (IRHD) 70,
80
Resistance to media
  • alcohols
  • mineral oils and lubricants (similarly to chloroprene rubbers)
  • diluted salt solutions
  • conditionally resistant to non-combustible hydraulic fluids of HSD type
  • water up to +100°C