About The Word Silicon
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Silicon
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What's The Definition Of Silicon?
[n] 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 | Synonyms for Silicon: atomic number 14 | Si Related Terms | Find terms related to Silicon: See Also | chemical element | clay | element | feldspar | felspar | granite | quartz | sand | semiconducting material | semiconductor | silicone | silicone polymer Silicon In Webster's Dictionary \Sil"i*con\, n. [See {Silica}.] (Chem.)
A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs
combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free
state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark
crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is
silica, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates,
it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the
earth's crust. Silicon is characteristically the element of
the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world.
Symbol Si. Atomic weight 28. Called also {silicium}.
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