USE OF SILICON MATERIALS IN MANUFACTURING, GLASS, COMPUTER & INDUSTRIAL SEMICONDUCTORS XD46884

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Synopsis: This is a Russian language educational film from 1979 on SILICON. There are two parts, each about 9 minutes long, in color. Film covers the origins of Silicon, its discovery by the Swedish chemist Jˆns Jacob Berzelius of Stockholm (1824). It contains many scenes of Silicon production and its use in various applications in science, industry, electronics and more. Silicon is the seventh most abundant element in the universe and the second most abundant element in the earth’s crust, after Oxygen. Seaweed and animals absorb it from the water, and it is one of the substances found in human skin and tissues, and is essential for healthy plants. In recent years, the properties of free silicon began to be actively studied by physicists, biologists and chemists. Pure silicon turned out to be an excellent semiconductor. it is widely used in the electronics in