Símbolo | Si |
Número atómico | 14 |
Grupo | 14 (Familia del carbono) |
Período | 3 |
Bloque | p |
Clasificación | Semimetal |
Apariencia | Crystalline, reflective with bluish-tinged faces |
Color | Gris |
Número de protones | 14 p+ |
Número de neutrones | 14 n0 |
Número de electrones | 14 e- |
Fase en STP | Sólido |
Densidad | 2.329 g/cm3 |
Peso atómico | 28.084 u |
Punto de fusión | 1687 K 1413.85 °C 2576.93 °F |
Punto de ebullición | 3538 K 3264.85 °C 5908.73 °F |
Entalpía de vaporización | 359 kJ/mol |
Electronegatividad (Escala de Pauling) | 1.9 |
Afinidad electrónica | 134.068 kJ/mol |
Estado de oxidación | −4, −3, −2, −1, 0, +1, +2, +3, +4 (an amphoteric oxide) |
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Predicción | Antoine Lavoisier (1787) |
Descubrimiento y primer aislamiento | Jöns Jacob Berzelius (1823) |
Nombrado por | Thomas Thomson (chemist) (1817) |
Descubrimiento de silicio In 1787, Antoine Lavoisier suspected that silica might be an oxide of a fundamental chemical element. After an attempt to isolate silicon in 1808, Sir Humphry Davy proposed the name "silicium" for silicon. Gay-Lussac and Thénard are thought to have prepared impure amorphous silicon in 1811, through the heating of recently isolated potassium metal with silicon tetrafluoride, but they did not purify and characterize the product, nor identify it as a new element. Silicon was given its present name in 1817 by Scottish chemist Thomas Thomson. He retained part of Davy's name but added "-on" because he believed that silicon was a nonmetal similar to boron and carbon. In 1824, Jöns Jacob Berzelius prepared amorphous silicon using approximately the same method as Gay-Lussac (reducing potassium fluorosilicate with molten potassium metal), but purifying the product to a brown powder by repeatedly washing it. As a result, he is usually given credit for the element's discovery. |