silicon: [19] Silicon was coined in 1817 by the British chemist Thomas Thomson. Like the slightly earlier silica, it was based on Latin silex ‘flint’. From the same source comes silicone, which dates from the 1860s.
silicon (n.)
nonmetallic element, 1817, coined by British chemist Thomas Thomson from silica (silicon dioxide), from which it was isolated. The name is patterned on carbon, etc. Silicon chip first attested 1965; Silicon Valley for the Santa Clara Valley south of San Francisco, U.S., first attested 1974, from the concentration of manufacturers of silicon chips used in computers, watches, etc.
silicon 英文释义
1. 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
silicon 双语例句
1. Designing silicon chips to mimic human organs sounds fanciful.
设计硅芯片模仿人的器官听上去是异想天开。
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2. This company pioneered the use of silicon chip.
这家公司开创了使用硅片的方法.
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3. Tomorrow's children will be even more in the thrall of the silicon chip.
将来硅片对孩子们的影响将进一步加深。
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4. The Earth is made mainly of iron and silicon and things like that.
地球主要由铁、硅等物质构成。
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5. Technology trends may push Silicon Valley back to the future.
技术的发展趋势有可能把硅谷重新推向未来.
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silicon 实用场景例句
...a thin layer of silicon oxide...
一层薄薄的氧化硅
柯林斯高阶英语词典
A chip is a piece of silicon about the size of a postage stamp.
芯片就是一枚邮票大小的硅片。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
He has no real technology of crystal silicon , nor his patents were realizable.
他没有拥有任何多晶硅提纯技术, 他所有的专利都是不可能实现的.
期刊摘选
The fertilizer effectiveness experiment of biological silicon fertilizer and the silicon calcium fertilizer was carried out.
本试验条件下,对生物硅肥和硅钙镁肥进行肥效试验,并探讨硅肥对水稻生长发育和产量的影响.
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Most electronic components use silicon chips these days.
现在多数电子元件都用到硅片.
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R & D , production and appilication, etc on silicon, organic fluorine, inorganic fluoride and fluorosilicone coating.
