Silicon (Si) is a metalloid, element number 14 on the periodic table. Like carbon, silicon has four bonding sites, but silicon is more than twice as heavy as carbon.

This post is the first in a three-part series on how living creatures use the elements of the periodic table. Learn more about the elements on NOVA's two-hour special, "Hunting The Elements." When ...

Top of the table Silicon, shown here being made into wafers for use in electronics, is one of the world-changing elements explored in this book. (Courtesy: Stock Connection/SuperStock) Picking the ...

Unlike the even, square periodic table of old, the skewed, multicoloured table of 2019 shows many of the elements used to make mobile phones as being included on an ‘endangered list’.

It seems as if the makeup of the periodic table would be as rudimentary as apples falling down, not up. There’s evidence for elements like oxygen, iron, and silicon all around.

While I don’t expect my elementary students to be able to memorize the periodic table of elements, ... the Earth is 34.6 percent iron, 29 percent oxygen, 15 percent silicon, 12.7 percent ...

It is present in stars, including our sun, and is number 14 on the periodic table. Silicon makes up 25.7 per cent of the Earth's crust by weight, and is the second-most abundant element, exceeded ...