Its applications range from contact lenses and medical devices to elastomers; it is also present in shampoos (as dimethicone makes hair shiny and slippery), food (antifoaming agent), caulking, lubricants, kinetic sand, and heat-resistant tiles.
An acronym for L ong T erm E volution, LTE is a 4G wireless communications standard developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) that's designed to provide up to 10x the speeds of 3G networks for mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks, notebooks and wireless hotspots.
Long-Term Evolution. A wireless mobile radio technology designed to succeed 3G WCDMA/HSDPA/HSUPA (and also CDMA) technology. Its primary feature for users is faster data, although it also improves the efficiency and capacity of wireless networks. Although LTE is not the name of the standard itself, it is often used that way. The actual standard is called 3GPP Release 8 (or greater). LTE is considered by many to be a 4G technology, both because it is faster than 3G, and because it uses an all-IP architecture where everything (including voice) is handled as data, similar to the Internet. See: 4G The first version of LTE to be widely deployed was LTE Category 3. It supports download data rates of up to 100 Mbps.