silicon
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A nonmetallic element (symbol Si) with an atomic number of 14 and atomic weight of 28.0855.
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A nonmetallic element (symbol Si) with an atomic number of 14 and atomic weight of 28.0855.
His idea is to stand billions of ultrafine wire loops around the edge of a silicon chip — hence the name racetrack — and use electric current to slide infinitesimally small magnets up and down along each of the wires to be read and written as digital ones and zeros.
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A single atom of this element.
Etimología
Coined by Scottish chemist Thomas Thomson as a modification of the earlier name silicium, from the stem of Latin silex (“flint, silica”) + -on from carbon.
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jergaComputing.
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jergaA computer processor.
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Variante de silicon chipAbbreviation of silicon chip.
Etimología
From the silicon chips used in computers.
Formas
- plural
- silicons
silicon · A nonmetallic element (symbol Si) with an atomic number of 14 and atomic weight of 28.0855.
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