The development prospects of silicon metal
Silicon is one of the half metal, old name "si". Melting point is 1420 ℃, the density of 2.34 grams per cubic centimeter. Qualitative hard and brittle. At room temperature does not dissolve in acid, soluble in alkali. The nature of the metal silicon and germanium, lead, tin, is in the nature of semiconductor. Silicon in the earth's crust is of rich resources, second only to oxygen, accounting for more than a quarter of the total weight of the earth's crust, in the form of silica or silicate.