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silicon

Silicon is a 7 letter word which starts with the letter S and ends with the letter N for which we found 1 definitions.

Definition
(n.) A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature and is artificially obtained in the free state usually as a dark brown amorphous powder or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is silica or common quartz and in this form or as silicates it is next to oxygen the most abundant element of the earth's crust. Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom as carbon is of the organic world. Symbol Si. Atomic weight 28. Called also silicium.

Syllable Information

The word silicon is a 7 letter word that has 3 syllable 's . The syllable division for silicon is: sil-i-con


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