{"id":2845,"date":"2026-08-23T22:08:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T22:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2026-08-23T22:08:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T22:08:45","slug":"silicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/silicon\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Silicon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon is a hard, brittle metalloid essential for electronics and forms the basis of silicate minerals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Silicon<\/strong> | It has semiconducting properties, forms strong covalent bonds and is stable at high temperatures in many forms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Silicon<\/strong> | Abundant in sand and rock, silicon is refined for microelectronics, solar cells and structural materials like glass and concrete.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Silicon<\/strong> | Stable isotopes include Si 28, Si 29 and Si 30; crystalline silicon is inert but fine particulate silica poses inhalation risks and requires controls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semiconductor backbone and abundant metalloid in Earths crust<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5904,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/5904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}