Silicon: The Cleverest Element On Earth
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Silicon is the second most abundant element, it even exists in our own bodies. What do you know about it?
Without silicon, we would not have come as far as we have regarding technology.
Silicon is critical in the calculations processors must do daily. Silicon is the second most abundant element on Earth by mass, making up over 27% of the crust. Most of the silicon on Earth is found in the form of silicon oxides like sand and quartz.
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Carbon is the cleverest element on Earth. It self-assembles into life.
Idk
That is very true, carbon is the element that makes an object in touch with reality and identifies it, everything and everyone is made of carbon
Maybe not entirely by itself (I think electromagnetic fields also play a role)
@@JscMemes except the things that are not made out of carbon of course... You're probably thinking about the fact that life on earth is carbon-based, so it's fair to say that all living things have carbon in them
*If we were to give carbon a title I'd call it the smartest element. Silicon is the clever sidekick that makes life so much more fun
Silicon might be the clever element of some other world and it might have some life form in other worlds..that explains the ufo's
Fun fact : Other than carbon , silicon based lives are also possible in alien worlds.
yeah because they are on the same group and have similar reactions. I wish to eat silicon chicken. Wait what
It’s not aliens , it’s the devices infront of us .
Fact?
Perhaps on planets where it rains lava and the soil is made of tungsten
What about those life forms that are particularly silly? Like Monte Python.
I love videos like this, they explain things I've always wondered about
They say gold is one of the most valuable metal on earth but the current civilization runs on silicon.
No wonder why it was named as ‘Silicon Valley’.
Not silicon, he says silicun.
@@billscow Because that's how it's pronounced.
silicone might be pronounced differently, though I'm not sure.
You might be thinking of that - it's a completely different substance.
I understood...
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All because of Fairchild semiconductor
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It's interesting how the Egyptians also valued and used silicon in the construction of important structures. Usually using massive blocks of high quality quartzite.
"Silicon: The Cleverest Element On Earth"
Carbon: Am I a joke to you?
This video is awesome and helping me to develop my interest in science
Science is the process of discovery and explanation.
Engineering takes those discoveries and explanations and creates things with it.
Silicon is also added to aluminum during mixing process, I know cause I shoveled enough of that rock in my younger days.
Carbon and silicon are insane
They are in the same group and right above/under each other
crazy how many people think silicon and silicone are the same things
Until they get a silicon implant instead of a silicone one - painful!
Guilty till now.
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@2:53 mama carbon birthed sillicon 😂
Interesting the author seems to think the boule is cast rather than seeded and dipped like a candle.
Also that wafers themselves are MOSFETs, while MOSFETs are only one common type of transistor.
lmao the opening already is making me laugh 😂
Amazing. I wonder who was the 1st genius who thought and created all of this.
Yeah....everyone needed to see Henry in this video...
The music is distracting.
So immensely intriguing!
Most outstanding!!!
Making pure silicon is the biggest challenge. It is no doubt the second most abundant element on planet earth. But making pure silicon without any impurities is not easy. It requires good amount of effort.
If my book teaches chemistry like this it would be much more interesting
When will engineers realize that biology, not silicon is the way forward?
Loved thi vdo
The spice must flow
wow I used to learn for school
do you have a video on Lithium?
I love this video
bismuth is going to be taking over! 1nm
It's wrong to point fault on the dependency on Silicone and not point out the actual issue of rare earth metals manufacturing and usage in micro chips. If the technology used pure silicone and was advanced to address the power issues, we wouldn't be in this day and age of chip shortage.
Which company buy silicon material , can anyone helps ?
Seems kind or silly to blame the shortage on silicon. As you said silicon is the second most abundant element on Earth. The reason Silicon is so great in so many of these applications is because it is so abundant, it is very cheap and easy to obtain. Also, a basic fact of physics and elements is, the lower down on the periodic table of elements something is, the more abundant it is in the universe while also being lighter.
There are probably other elements higher up the periodic table that share traits with silicon, and thus would make a suitable replacement. The problem is the higher you go up the table, the more rare the element is. This is because stars only naturally produce elements in abundance up to Iron. Iron, due to its difficulty in working in fusion processes, is usually what stalls the engine in stars and kills them. Heavier elements get made through other processes, and thus don't get made in anywhere near the abundance as Iron and lower elements.
This means, any alternative to Silicon is going to be more rare by quite a bit, thus more expensive by quite a bit. Also, it will be heavier. Since it will share a similar profile as Silicon, that is subatomic makeup, it will likely be physically bigger too which wouldn't be great for very small circuits.
So, it seems silly to think anything else would really be superior to Silicon.
It is the shortage of silicon metal, which does not occur as the element in nature.
The shortage is due to manufacturing capacity, not the raw materials. It takes time and big bucks to build new chip factories.
@@karhukivi Not the reason. The metalloid comes from sand. The shortages are due to manufacturing capacity.
@@BradHouser That's what I said, the shortage of manufactured silicon "metal" yes, it's a metalloid but they call it metal.
@@karhukiviI meant to say the chip shortage is not the result of a shortage of the raw material, rather wafer fab capacity.
Everything was getting short because the lack of use increases....
The only element that climbed Everest
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I don't know how we can say the transistors in processors use low current because a CPU that consumes more that 100 Watts doesn't even reach 2 Volts.
If you make a nanoscale transistors
2 Volts are very high voltage, electrons can jump the insulation on transistor walls...
100 watts at 2 volts is 50 amps of current.
50 amps is a *lot* of current.
But it comes down to the number of transistors on the chip. A chip consuming 100 watts is going to have billions of transistors.
The current being passed by each individual transistor is going to be very low.
Silicon is also the most abundant element on earth after Oxygen of course.
Looks like God wanted humans to use it so created in abundance.
Not silicon, he says silicun.
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Silicon 👍💖
Silicun! He says silicun.
The idea that the chip shortage demonstrates a need for an alternative to silicon is false. The chip shortage isn't for lack of silicon. Remember, it's the 2nd most abundant element on Earth. Everything went into shortage as governments and people freaked out reducing the work force and tanking economies.
It's more rather that most of the semi-conductor production is focused in Taiwan and that all of the tools needed for chip production come from the Netherlands which makes it very vulnerabile to trade route disruption, alongside the fact that their production and transportation requires a lot of energy and fuel.
@@thebandofbastards4934 I agree with you. It's important to have domestic supplies of strategic resources.
I was responding to a claim made in the video.
Abundance is irrelevant, it is silicon metal they are talking about, it has to be manufactured.
great
0:29 Mr. Indian Hacker 😂?
Amazing
Watching this while drinking my Fiji
All mobile phones share the fact they use gold, copper and aluminium aswell not just silicon so bad comparison
Again all are going to fall down till you do not pay attention to creating alternative source of energy which is not going to end like solar and hydro energy
Silicon+valleys=ever chipp
Matter transferring material
@7:21 indirectly refers to US' No1 rival China !
Boron doped Blue Diamond 🔹️ is far more efficient than Silicon and can be cloned in lab controlled environments in small and large scale production volumes.
Define "efficient".
Aren't silicone crystals grown and not casted?
what a name for a lever matter. Sili !?
0:29 cool to see Mr Indian hacker. :D
Drink a shot everytime he says silicon
Silicon is more durable than carbon and can store more data. The stronger cousin of carbon.
Melting above *3,632 °F?* Really? Sure it's not *3,631 °F* or *3,633 °F?* This is called *"fake precision",* and it is incorrect. It would be better to just use *2,000 °C,* the temperature with the original precision. However, if someone insists on including antiquated imperial units, at least do the unit conversion correctly.
Uh, is this a PR video for the current administration or one about silicon?
bit of a nitpick here, china's in the wrong shape 6:47
silicon is everywhere,, then why there is shortage of it
The problem is not silicon itself, but the machines that make the chips, asml is one of the only companys in the world that make the machines that make chips, so chipmakers that want to expand their capacity need to pay big buck and wait long for their machines to arrive.
Wow...
Calling BS on "this administration" actually doing anything to help.
silicon abundant
Not silicon, he says silicun.
I have a line I made up years ago:
"There's nothing new under the sun ..... Except silicon!"
It's always meet with the reply..... "That's not new!!!!!!!" ....... Missing the point entirely
It is carbon which is smartest...no life or organic chemistry possible without
New beheverant element is .....
Look for more and advice.
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yeah absolutely you are right silicon is every where even in human body such as ( lips, breast, bu...., etc ). do apologize for the bad words have been used.😂😂😂❤❤
Not silicon, he says silicun.
Silicon and Silicone. They are *not* the same.
I feel like he said "silicon" too many times.
A house built on the sand…
But simply carbon is smarter
Many contradictions.
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The music is terrible
Yeah china make Silicon but some silicon from Philippines...
Fun fact: 80% of the world population DOES NOT OWN A SMARTPHONE. Check your statistics.
yes It burn my hand Try hinu work 🙏🏻🇱🇰
Oh dear no chips...
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@MR.INDIAN HACKER in this video
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Bro why have u included Tajikistan in China map?? U shouldn't taken tibet from China and not add some other adjacent nations i think I'll add Bhutan and Mongolia too😅
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The speaker has no idea of what he is speaking when it comes to EE
It's not silicon, he says silicun.
Hello.to the video's creators. I couldn't watch more than two minutes,because of the awful music. Very annoying. The content is great,but this irritating music is unnecessary. Thanks
If silicon was really clever it would figure out how to feed and house all the human beings on our planet. Several billion of the people mentioned may own a smartphone but live a subpar existence.
Less technical crap, more humanity!
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You pronounced China wrong, its pronounced "Chaina". Donald Trump would agree.
Foolish was the man who built everything out of sand.
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Mr Indian hacker they have more subscriber than your
But he know more than Mr Indian hacker
The element is a metal called SILICA, when combined with other "things" it becomes SILICON.
Silicon is the element, Silica is silicon dioxide like the desiccant its also in sand and quarts
I rather an aerogel valley adjacent lol