Who was the first person to isolate silicon?

Marie Curie

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Berzelius

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Dalton

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The correct option is B Berzelius
Silicon was discovered by Jöns Jacob Berzelius, a Swedish chemist, in 1824 by heating chips of potassium in a silica container and then carefully washing away the residual by-products. Silicon is the seventh most abundant element in the universe and the second most abundant element in the earth's crust.

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