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Background Info

Basic Properties - A table of physical properties of silicon is shown here

History of Silicon - A brief history of silicon. Outlines, where silicon appeared throughout the history books.

Real Chemistry

Where does silicon come from? Out lines the process of how we obtain pure silicon from it natural ore.

Silicon, Silicone Silica or Silicate?Easily confused? then maybe this will clarify a few things

A Little Interesting

Interesting Facts Facts about silicon can be found here. Some interesting, some funny and some just plain absurd.

Usefull Links

Webelements This is the home page of chemistry's periodic table of the elements on the World-Wide Web

Chemdex The directory of chemistry on the world wide web since 1993. Contains thousands of links to chemistry related web sites.

RSC - Royal Society of Chemistry "The largest organization in europe for advancing the chemical science"

 

Allotropy - The existence, especially in the solid state, of two or more crystalline or molecular structural forms of an element.

Amorphous - Having no determinate form, irregular; shapeless and non crystalline..

Colloidal - Of divided particles, which are approximately 10 to 10,000 angstroms in size.

Desiccant - A substance, such as calcium oxide or silica gel, that has a high affinity for water and is used as a drying agent.

Polycrystalline - Composed of aggregates of crystals. Of many crystals.

Polymorph - A specific crystalline form of a compound that can crystallize in different forms

 

 

 

 

 

May 28, 2004 16:55