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Topic: ELEMENT SILICON

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 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):Gas oven
Personality:Nervous
Currently has on their coffee table:New Scientist
Favorite body part(s):Lungs
Favorite food(s):Anything with salt
Favorite animal(s):Goldfish
Interest(s):Chemistry,  Science,  Physics
Favorite great thinker(s):Ampere,  Marie Curie
Likes to wear:Vinyl
Favorite destination(s):The Moon
Medical note(s):Undergoing therapy,  Heart attack imminent,  Uses laxatives
Favorite drink(s):Milk
Favorite quote(s):"Fill what's empty , empty what's full, and scratch where it itches." - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
 
 
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The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

Silicon Graphics did us a favor by making the software freely available, but you will have to customize some elements to get it to work for you.
Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator

Supernova explosions inject carbon, oxygen, silicon and other heavy elements up to iron into interstellar space.
Aluminum is the third most abundant element in the earth's crust after oxygen and silicon.
Silicon is the second most abundant element of the earth's crust; it makes up about 28% of the crust by weight.
Billie Kirgan,
Machinist

This spectrum showed emission lines from the elements magnesium, silicon, sulfur, argon and calcium.
The two dopant elements typically used to influence silicon are phosphorus and boron.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

MEMS are semiconductor chips that integrate mechanical elements, sensors, actuators, and electronics on a silicon substrate.
The silicon detectors, of the channels 1 to 32, are DC coupled with their preamplifiers, all other detector elements are AC- coupled to their preamplifiers.
Also these alloys may contain additions of silicon, columbium, zirconium or other elements which enhance heat treatment response of one of the magnetic characteristics.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

A lithium drifted silicon X-ray detector with high energy resolution enables these characteristic X-rays to be identified with specific elements.
These elements undergo chemical reactions to form complex compounds, usually involving carbon or silicon, that then can condense into "dust" grains.
We can imagine life based on silicon or other elements chemically similar to carbon, but these would still require cooking in stars.
 
 
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