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Bookmark or Share- Why Is Life Carbon-Based (And Not, Say, Silicon-Based)? - Science ABCThe closest element to carbon’s “social” abilities is silicon, but silicon is big and somewhat introverted. Even though silicon belongs to the same group as carbon, it fails to form strong and stable bonds with itself or other elements, especially hydrogen.
- On the Potential of Silicon as a Building Block for Life - PMCIn this section, we explore the potential diversity of silicon chemistry from three viewpoints: the theoretical diversity of organosilicon chemistry; the observed functional diversity of silicon molecules; and the potential diversity of silicon-based polymers.
- Silicon-Based Life, That Staple of Science Fiction, May Not Be Likely ...Not only do they provide a comparison of the chemical reactivity of carbon and silicon, they offer many amazing examples of how silicon is used by life on Earth and what type of silicon...
- Could Life Be Silicon-Based? - Reasons to BelieveYet, as we demonstrated, the best chance for “life as we don’t know it” is silicon-based life. And, based on the analysis by the MIT researchers, life can’t be silicon-based. It must be built around carbon and must reside in an aqueous setting.
- Hypothetical types of biochemistry - WikipediaThe silicon atom has been much discussed as the basis for an alternative biochemical system, because silicon has many chemical similarities to carbon and is in the same group of the periodic table. Like carbon, silicon can create molecules that are sufficiently large to carry biological information.
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