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Silicon   /sˈɪləkən/   Listen
Silicon

noun
1.
A tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors.  Synonyms: atomic number 14, Si.



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"Silicon" Quotes from Famous Books



... of matter, developed earlier (Chapter XI), allows us to recognize in these two substances representatives of the Salt-Sulphur polarity. Indeed, glass as a mineral substance, which actually owes its specific character to the presence of silicon in it, clearly stands on the phosphoric-crystalline side, while resin, being itself a sort of 'gum', on the sulphurous-volcanic side. In fact, sulphur itself was soon found to be a particularly suitable substance for ...
— Man or Matter • Ernst Lehrs



Words linked to "Silicon" :   semiconducting material, semiconductor, chemical element, sand, silicon bronze, element, feldspar, clay, quartz, silicon dioxide, granite, felspar



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