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attempt to
isolate silicon in 1808, Sir
Humphry Davy
proposed the name "
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Latin silex,
silicis for flint, and
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silicon its
present name,
rejecting the
suggested "
silicium"
because he felt the
element had no
metallic characteristics, and that...
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