The ocean floor is basalt rock, a mixture of silicon and magnesium.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

We begin by doing a neural surgical procedure, to implant a silicon based electrode array that you are seeing on the right.

一开始，我们做一个神经手术，植入一个电极排列芯片,正如大家在右边说看到的。

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Gallium arsenide switches ten times faster than silicon All of a sudden,I've got a clock speed ten times faster with no change in design.

砷化镓启动的速度是硅的10倍,突然，我得到了10倍快的时钟速度,但是设计没有发生任何改变。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

Most sand is made of quartz, a hard silicon crystal.

VOA: special.2010.01.04

I don't know what it takes to replicate that in China, but I certainly hope one day there will be a place in China that looks like Silicon Valley.

无法想象如何在中国复制一个硅谷，但我希望在将来,中国会有类似硅谷的地方。

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Salman Khan lives in California's Silicon Valley, with his wife, a rheumatologist in training at Stanford University, and their new baby.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

I mean,this romantic notion of what goes on in Silicon Valley actually still holds true in a lot of cases but there's absolutely no way, as a venture capital investor, you could index the venture capital market.

比如,硅谷崛起的故事,实际上许多其他地方也有类似的例子,但是对于风险投资者来说,指数化风险资本市场,是绝对不可能的

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After visiting Silicon Valley, President Medvedev comes to Washington for a brief summit with President Barack Obama.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Construction is a combination of workmanship and choice of materials. Take this computer, if I pull the silicon out, I replace it with gallium arsenide, leave everything else the same.

构造则是技巧和材料的选择,的结合，拿这个电脑为例，如果我将硅取出，替换成砷化镓，其他东西不变。

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The tiny silicon wires stick up from the base,or substrate, looking something like a microscopic hair brush.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

And because the key component of solar cells is an expensive, highly purified form of silicon, there's a real economic benefit to this design.

VOA: standard.2010.02.19

Those are questions that don't have answers yet." Analysts say President Medvedev's idea of creating a Russian Silicon Valley is tied to his broader plan to modernize the country's economy.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Experts,such as Robert Legvold from Columbia University, say Mr.Medvedev is trying to generate interest in his plan to create a Russian Silicon Valley in the suburbs of Moscow known as the Skolkova Innovation Initiative.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

"You really need system-wide Skolkovas - Silicon Valley - otherwise it ends up just like under Catherine the Great when they imported a lot of German tradesmen and planted them in various settlements - but they were fairly self-contained.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18