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To: Red Badger

Silicon is a metal. Silica is a ceramic . Silicon dioxide is a compound. I’m not a metalurgist but do work with aluminum alloys. They contain both silica and silicon. They’re not the same


49 posted on 01/22/2011 10:05:26 PM PST by Figment ("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
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To: Figment

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki?search=silicon


51 posted on 01/22/2011 10:09:24 PM PST by Red Badger (Whenever these vermin call you an 'idiot', you can be sure that you are doing something right.)
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