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    Discovery of silicon & how is it extracted commercially

    lol that's good enough answer for me aswell. & yes it has to specificcally be Silicon, as I am doing a report on it.
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    Discovery of silicon & how is it extracted commercially

    sry for bieng so blunt & so naive :p i got this much so far. It was only identified in 1787 by a scientist Lavoisier. However, Berzelius was the first person to isolate silicon in 1823, and thus he is credited with its discovery (web1.caryacademy.org). the thing is i can't find out why he was...
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    Discovery of silicon & how is it extracted commercially

    what lead to the discovery of silicon & how is it extracted commercially & how can it be done at home aswell?