Inside the Universes

'silicon'

[silicon.n.01] as in: a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors

Origins

					silicon (English)
├── silex (Latin)
└── silica (English)
    └── silex (Irish)