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The mineral that built your window, your beach, and your group chat.
means Silicon dioxide, a hard crystalline compound found in sand, quartz, and glass, and central to electronics.
from From Latin silex, meaning hard stone or flint — the rock that sparked humanity's first fires and, eventually, its first chips.
Crust shareRoughly 60 percent of Earth's crust by weight.
Chip nameSilicon Valley is named for purified silica.
Quartz formPure crystalline silica is just clear quartz.
Those packetsSilica gel guards your shoes from moisture.