Silicon is a substance found in great abundance on Earth, and is often mentioned in the world of semiconductors, plants, and the underground world. Semiconductors are substances that have intermediate properties between conductors such as metals, which easily conduct electricity, and insulators such as glass, which do not easily conduct electricity, and seem to be useful for controlling whether or not they conduct electricity. By simply adding a small amount of boron or phosphorus to silicon, it becomes an easily controllable p-type or n-type semiconductor. In addition, when silicon reacts with oxygen, it becomes silicon dioxide (silica), which becomes an insulating coating, which also seems to be useful for control.
Quartz (crystal), which is made of high-purity silicon dioxide, is an insulator, but also a piezoelectric material that generates electricity when pressure is applied, making quartz one of the most piezoelectric substances in nature. There is a theory that when strong pressure is applied instantaneously underground due to an earthquake or other event, an electric charge is generated in the quartz, causing gold to precipitate from the ground, and the electric charge that flows through the gold attracts the gold, forming a gold vein. Since 60% of the earth’s crust is made up of silicon dioxide, electric charges must be generated frequently underground.
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Conversely, when a voltage is applied to a piezoelectric material, the crystal distorts as if pressure was being applied, and the distortion and return to normal is particularly periodic and precise with quartz crystals, and this vibration is used in clocks on PCs, etc. The quartz crystal units used in clocks and other devices apparently vibrate exactly 32,768 times per second.
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Water and silicon dioxide, the most abundant liquids and solids on Earth, seem to have similar properties. They are classified as anomalous liquids because they behave abnormally for a liquid, such as being denser than a solid at a certain temperature and somehow becoming less viscous under high pressure. The reason for this seems to be a regular tetrahedral structure, which includes silicon and germanium, the second most commonly used semiconductor after silicon. It seems a bit strange, doesn’t it?
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In addition, water, silicon, silicon dioxide, and other substances have multiple amorphous states, which should normally only exist once per substance. The amorphous state is also called amorphous, and refers to a state in which atoms and molecules are arranged irregularly. Glass is an amorphous state. It’s strange that substances that are so common in our daily lives have such special properties, but there must be some meaning behind it.
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The sand and rocks that we are familiar with are mostly made up of silicon dioxide, and the Earth’s crust also seems to be made up of a lot of silicon dioxide, so perhaps the earth is supported by silicon.
In addition, the Grass family, which is a staple plant that supports many terrestrial organisms, requires a lot of silicon, and diatoms, which support about half of the organisms in the ocean and are responsible for 20% of the Earth’s total photosynthesis, also require a lot of silicon. These properties of absorbing a lot of silicon may play a role in connecting the earth (crust) and the sky (air), and the earth (crust) and the sun (sunlight) through water. Silicon is amazing. The composition of the Earth is amazing.
