The element that turned sand into civilisation's substrate: every processor you have ever used is a slab of ultrapure silicon.
- Atomic number
- 14
- Atomic mass
- 28.085 u
- Phase
- Solid
- Electron configuration
- [Ne] 3s² 3p²
- Melting point
- 1,687 K · 1,413.9 °C
- Boiling point
- 3,538 K · 3,264.9 °C
- Density
- 2.33 g/cm³
- Electronegativity
- 1.9
- Period / Group
- 3 / 14
- Discovery year
- 1824