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What is used to make computer chips?

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Silicon, is the most abundant element on earth except for oxygen, and is used in chip manufacturing because it is a natural semiconductor. Silicon compounds have a wide variety of useful properties, mostly because they can bind other atoms very tightly, and in complex arrangements. Silicon is also the major structural component of the synthetic material silicone

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