DICTIONARY ENTRY
3 SYLLABLES
silicon
/'sɪləkən/ · sɪləkən
Silicon has 3 syllables: sil · i · con.
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noun. A tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors.
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