Silicon, Powder

Choose the highest quality solutions and chemicals from Spectrum Chemical. Shop Silicon, 100-200 Mesh, Powder is a tetravalent metalloid that has a large impact on the modern world economy. While most free elemental silicon is used in the steel refining, aluminum casting, and fine chemical industries (often to make fumed silica), the relatively small portion of very highly purified silicon is perhaps even more critical. The wide use of silicon in semiconductor integrated circuits, the basis of most computers, a great deal of modern technology depends on it. Silicon is also an essential element in biology, although only tiny traces of it appear to be required by animals.