*+Silicon's+Uses...(R)

=**SILICON's Uses.**=

Silicon has many uses. These uses include making concrete or brick. Silicon is usually in the form of sand or clay. Silicon is a useful material for work that includes high-temperatures. Silicon is the most important ingredient of glass. This element is one of the most inexpensive materials that have many properties such as mechanical, optical, thermal, and electrical.

Silicon is also important to plants and animal life. Diatoms, or a single celled algea, has a cell wall of silica, therefor it extracts Silica in both fresh and saltwater to build its cell walls.

Silicon is also an important ingredient in steel, its form of 'silicon carbide' has been used in lasers to produce a spacefic type or light by the name of 4560 A.

http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap2/php/Hidden_Ecologies/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/Diatoms-HH-16-091.JPG This is also a detailed picture of the single celled algea, Diatoms.

Another example of the uses: CONCRETE.

**//__Silicon's Compounds.__//**
Silicon cannot be used by itself, it must be mixed with another substance in order to form glass, or concrete, or any of the following uses above. Some common compounds are...

SiF4: silicon (IV) fluoride
 * Fluorides**: Fluoride is the main ingredient in Toothpaste. It Keeps teeth healthy and protects from cavities.

SiCl4: silicon (IV) chloride
 * Chlorides**: Chloride is used in the body to regulate metabolism or to decontaminate river waters or any other waters.

SiBr4: silicon (IV) bromide
 * Bromides**: Bromides are commonly used in medicine, it is a disinfectant commonly used by veterinaries.


 * Iodides**: Iodides are used as antioxidants (a substance that inhibits oxidation, used to counteract the deterioration of stored food. Oxford American Dictionaries.)

SiI4: silicon (IV) iodide