Silicon - Wikiparency

# Silicon ## 🧊 Silicon · 3D (three.js) <iframe src="https://wikitube-elements.netlify.app/?el=Si&embed=1" width="100%" height="620" frameborder="0" style="border:0;border-radius:12px;overflow:hidden" allowfullscreen loading="lazy" title="The Elements 3D microsim - Silicon"></iframe> *Silicon in the live three.js Elements explorer — drag to orbit the atom, click any tile to compare, slide the temperature.* · [▶ open full](https://wikitube-elements.netlify.app/?el=Si)  !Silicon plate.svg *Plate 14 of 118 - animated Bohr shells, stylized per Madelung filling; engraving style per house Arcanity kit.* ## Microsim To Do *Claimable rows, house pattern. Real Wikipedia articles only.* - Semiconductor physics - p-n junctions and electronic band structure - Integrated circuit - transistors and microchip fabrication - Silicon dioxide - quartz, sand, and glass materials - Photovoltaic effect - silicon solar cells and renewable energy - Silicate mineral - rock-forming oxides and crystal structures ## Links (Wikipedia order)  `Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth's_crust` · `Abundance_of_the_chemical_elements` · [[Actinium]] · `Alfred_Stock` · `Alkali_metal` · `Alkaline_earth_metal` · `Allotropes_of_silicon` · `Allotropy` · `Alpha_process` · [[Aluminium]] · `Aluminosilicate` · [[Americium]] · `Amorphous_silicon` · `Amphibole` · `Analytical_chemistry` · [[Antimony]] · `Antoine_Lavoisier` · `Aorta` · [[Argon]] · `Armenian_language` · [[Arsenic]] · [[Astatine]] · `Astrobiology` · `Atmospheric_pressure` · `Atomic_number` · `Atomic_radius` · `Aurosilane` · `Automotive_industry` · `Band_gap` · [[Barium]] · `Bell_Labs` · [[Berkelium]] · [[Beryllium]] · 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[[Zinc]] · [[Zirconium]] · `Zirconium_dioxide` > **Official MAIN - Chemical element, Z = 14.** Part of the Elements Canon (one canonical page per element). Infobox grounded in [Wikipedia: List of chemical elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements), fetched 2026-07-08. Full article: [Wikipedia: Silicon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon).  ## Key facts (infobox) | | | |---|---| | Symbol - Z | Si - 14 | | Group - Period - Block | 14 - 3 - p-block | | Atomic weight (Da) | 28.085 | | Density (g/cm3) | 2.3290 | | Melting - Boiling (K) | 1687 - 3538 | | Electronegativity (Pauling) | 1.9 | | Crustal abundance (mg/kg) | 282000 | | Origin | primordial | | Phase (STP) | solid | | Name origin | Latin silex, 'flint' | *Bracketed weights are the mass number of the most stable isotope; values in parentheses are predictions (per the source table).* ## Story Silicon was isolated in 1823 by Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius as an amorphous powder through the reduction of potassium hexafluorosilicate. The element's name derives from the Latin *silex*, meaning flint, the hard crystalline form of silicon dioxide. Silicon compounds—quartz, sand, clay, and glass—have been central to human civilization for millennia; ancient potters, glassmakers, and masons worked with silicon dioxide long before anyone understood its elemental composition. Silicon is the second most abundant element in Earth's crust by mass, typically found bound in silicate minerals and silicon dioxide (SiO₂). Unlike carbon, which forms four covalent bonds to other atoms, silicon also forms silicate anions with oxygen, creating an enormous diversity of mineral structures that comprise most rocks, soils, and sands [model-prior - verify]. Pure elemental silicon is a semiconductor with properties that revolutionized 20th-century technology: its electronic behavior—between conductor and insulator—enabled the transistor, integrated circuit, and all digital computation [model-prior - verify]. Today, silicon is the foundation of the Emerging Technology Center of Excellence, powering everything from smartphones to solar panels to supercomputers. The semiconductor industry dopes silicon with boron (p-type) and phosphorus (n-type) to create the junctions that form the basis of all microelectronics [model-prior - verify]. In this corpus, silicon anchors the **digital revolution and Emerging Technology narrative**. Its role as the foundational semiconductor material connects directly to artificial intelligence, computing, and the information infrastructure that underpins modern society. ## Corpus connections - R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N. - the Chemistry hub - Centers of Excellence Portal - [[Technetium|Technetium - the element made before found]] - the canon's patron - and Technitium, the School - Emerging Technology Center of Excellence - semiconductors and digital computing infrastructure - External: [Semiconductor - en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor) for microelectronics - SOLAR SYSTEM MINING SURVEYS - silicon abundance in rocky bodies and regolith ## Vocational-Technical Semiotics The element speaks the canon's shared signs: the periodic table cell (Si, group 14, period 3), isotope notation, and hazard pictograms ghs where handling demands it. ## Sources Infobox: [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemical_elements) (fetched 2026-07-08); etymology per the same table's notes. Story sources to be added at enrichment.  ## From the Real GENERATIVE library > Silicon is a chemical element; it has symbol Si and atomic number 14. It is a hard, brittle crystalline solid with a blue-grey metallic luster, and is a tetravalent metalloid and semiconductor. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon))  ## Navigation - Canon: Elements Canon index - neighbors by Z: [[Aluminium|Aluminium (13)]] - [[Phosphorus|Phosphorus (15)]] - R.E.A.C.T.I.O.N. - Centers of Excellence ## Wikipedia : Wikitube **Strict pair:** [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon) : [Wikitube](https://en.wikitube.io/wiki/Silicon) ## Previous hub tags Tree parents: [[Helium]] · [[Hydrogen]] · [[Oxygen]]. Legacy hubs: none. --- *Sources: 1 legacy note. Minted wave 1, 2026-07-30 (v1.6 order).*