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Silicon Presentation Slide 1 I am going to talk to you about Silicon. As you can see Silicon sits next to aluminium and below carbon in the periodic table. Slide 2 If we all think on what we know about silicon for a minute, some of us may recognize silicon as being the key part of sand. Others may think of computer chips; and there is no doubt a few of you will think of breast implants. I'm not going to focus on sand or surgery, but the influence that silicon has had on our everyday lives, you may not realise it but because of its semi conducting properties after doping, silicon is responsible for the revolution in electrical devices from the first transistor radios to the tiny mobile phones of today. In fact, without the invention of the transistor, I would not be able to do this presentation as computers and such...

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