Quartz is quartz—a silicon ion surrounded by four oxygen ions—there's no difference at all between two-million-year-old Pleistocene quartz and Cambrian quartz created over 500 million years ago.
石英是石英——由四个氧离子围绕的硅离子——200万年前的更新世石英和5亿年前的寒武纪石英之间没有任何区别。
The new chip will be made from a piece of silicon about the size of a postage stamp.
这种新的芯片将由大约邮票大小的一块硅片制成。
The artificial leaf — a silicon solar cell with different catalytic materials bonded onto its two sides — needs no external wires or control circuits to operate.
人造叶子实际上是两边分别胶合了不同材料的催化剂的硅太阳能电池，因此不需要外部导线或者控制电路来操控。
Currently, the most commonly studied nanochannel is a silicon nanopore, made by drilling a hole through a silicon membrane.
目前，最常见纳米通道的研究是通过在硅表面钻了一个洞的硅纳米孔。
The new device is a silicon wafer about the shape and size of a playing card.
这个新设备是一张纸牌大小的硅晶片。
Nobody could have imagined 10 years ago that nowadays it would be so common to integrate relatively complicated optical circuits on to a silicon chip.
10年前没有人能想到现在能把相对复杂的光学电路集成到一个硅芯片上。
A team of Mexican scientists found that the heated vapor from 80-proof (40% alcohol) tequila blanco, when deposited on a silicon or stainless steel substrate, can form diamond films.
一组墨西哥科学家发现从标准度数（40%酒精含量）的银色龙舌兰酒中加热得到的热蒸汽当凝结到硅或不锈钢基底上时能够形成钻石薄膜。
Basically, a DNA strand is pushed through a 2nm hole on a silicon chip and, as it moves through, that chip is able to use an electrical charge to read the strand's coding sequence.
DNA链被拉进硅基芯片上的直径2nm的孔，随着它穿过小孔，该芯片可以通过电荷读取到链上的编码序列。
The technique developed in Bristol uses two identical particles of light (photons) moving along a network of circuits in a silicon chip to perform an experiment known as a quantum walk.
利用这项在布里斯托尔研制出来的技术，研究者们让两个完全相同的光粒子(光子)通过一个光子芯片——刻录在硅片上的光学网络，从而实现了一个被称为量子游走（QuantumWalk）的物理过程。
To make its artificial leaf, the MIT team spread its catalysts on opposite sides of a silicon wafer.
此研究团队将催化剂涂在了硅片的正反两面，使它像一片人工叶子。
But the ion Torrent machine USES a silicon chip that can detect the hydrogen ions given off when a new base is added to a strand of DNA.
但离子激流该机采用了硅芯片，该芯片可以检测出氢离子发出了一个新的基地时被添加到一个DNA链。
Attached to the latter is a membrane filled with a silicon-based liquid, which remains transparent and fluid at any temperature.
一片带含硅液体的薄膜附着于内镜。含硅液体无论在任何温度下都保持透明和流动。
But conditions in a silicon chip-fabrication facility are anyone's guess due to the lack of regulation or regulatory oversight, Prather says.
然而由于缺乏管理或者管理疏忽，芯片制造工厂里的条件是谁也说不准的，普莱瑟说道。
Their working model is a shoebox-sized package of electronics and liquid-filled tubes, with a silicon chip at its core.
他们的工作模型是一个鞋盒大小的电子盒和一个填满液体的管道，这个模型的核心是一块硅片。
Making integrated circuits involves depositing layers of materials such as semiconductors and metals on a silicon wafer.
制造集成电路需要将如半导体和金属等多层材料放置在硅片上。
Once the cells are in cube form, they can be arranged in specific shapes using templates made of PDMS, a silicon-based polymer used in many medical devices.
细胞被封装于立方体后，它们就可以通过由聚二甲基硅氧烷(PDMS)——一种也已被广泛用于医疗配件中的含硅多聚体——制成的模板被赋予各种形状。
You don't have to be a Silicon Valley billionaire to deliver a great speech.
你们不必像硅谷的亿万富翁那样做一个伟大的演讲。
Mr Medvedev has a grand plan to create a Silicon Valley in Skolkovo, a special zone outside Moscow, and is bringing in Cisco, an internet-services giant, as a flagship firm.
梅德韦杰夫有一个宏大的计划，他要在斯科尔科夫——莫斯科外的一个特区——创造俄罗斯的硅谷。 他在把网络服务巨头思科拉进来，作为一个旗舰公司。
The pioneering computer-hobbyist group, The Homebrew Computer Club, holds its first meeting in a Silicon Valley garage.
计算机爱好者团体的先驱，家酿计算机俱乐部，在一间硅谷车库里举行第一次聚会。
Realising this, perhaps, the SPD this week proposed a "Silicon Valley of environmentally friendly industrial production" -another export-boosting plan.
或许是正意识到这一点，本周社民党提出了一个“环境友好型工业生产硅谷”——另一项出口振新计划。
Its headquarters in booming Shenzhen look like a Silicon Valley transplant, with high-tech laboratories, manicured lawns, and staff swimming pools.
它的总部设在蓬勃发展的深圳，看起来像是硅谷的复制品，建有高科技实验室、修剪整齐的草坪和员工游泳池。
The gases to be analysed reach the nanotubes through a miniature column etched onto a silicon chip.
未知毒气穿过一块硅片上的微型圆柱后接触到纳米管。
This is very much a Silicon Valley phenomenon, where wunderkinds are everywhere.
这很大程度是硅谷独有的现象，年少得志者在这里随处可见。
For a Silicon Valley startup, you might need to focus on high conversions and optimization. If you’re working for authors, maybe you need to learn how to make their books look great.
比如对硅谷创业的人来说，必须了解集中精力于高转化率和优化上，比如对作家来说，必须让书变的更好看。
Nearly 40% of patents filed in 2005 by Intel, a silicon-chip maker, were for work done by people of Chinese or Indian origin.
英特尔公司2005年的专利中有40%是由那些来自于中国和印度的人员贡献的。
The researchers placed a silicon nitride waveguide on a transparent nanoporous silicon oxide substrate that they specially developed to have a much lower refractive index than that of the waveguide.
其做法是在纳米级氧化硅透明衬底上生长氮化硅波导，衬底的折射率远小于波导。
By contrast, IBM grew its graphene transistors on a silicon-carbide wafer, and then added an insulating layer which prevents short circuits in the transistors.
相比之下，IBM将石墨烯晶体管植入矽-碳晶圆上，然后涂上绝缘层以防止晶体管短路。
By contrast, IBM grew its graphene transistors on a silicon-carbide wafer, and then added an insulating layer which prevents short circuits in the transistors.
相比之下，IBM将石墨烯晶体管植入矽-碳晶圆上，然后涂上绝缘层以防止晶体管短路。
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