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The bashful metalloid that became civilization's brain after billions of years as beach.
means A common chemical element (number 14) that, when purified, becomes the semiconductor at the heart of every computer chip.
from Coined by Berzelius in 1817 from Latin silex, meaning flint or hard stone, plus the -on suffix borrowed from carbon and boron.
Earth's crustSecond most abundant element after oxygen.
Not siliconeSilicon is the element; silicone is the rubbery polymer.
Sand to chipQuartz becomes 99.9999999 percent pure for wafers.