Q. In your answer to Mr. S.S. regarding the use of moisture-adsorbent bags to keep headlight housings dry (Cars, Aug. 16), you have confused your elements. Silicon is element number 14. It can combine ...

India, Jan. 18 -- PAX SILICA draws its origins from the Latin word PAX, which means peace, stability and long-term prosperity ...

A new technique for producing silicon might make this technologically vital element cheaper. It could also give engineers new ways to design silicon chips. The process, developed by Toshiyuki Nohira ...

Silica represents the class of oxide-and-silicate minerals that includes silicon. Silica sand has been identified as a grainy material composed mostly of quartz with trace amounts of clay, coal, and ...