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Silicon

Z: 14
Mass: 28.085
Lifeforce: Earth
In the body: bones, liver

Sand, glass, silicon chip — the same atom, three civilizations. And beneath it all: the bedrock of the Earth, second most abundant element in the crust. You are standing on it right now.

A terraced slope with laid stone foundations and visible roots; a figure sets a stone in place. — Plate · Earth Earth never hurries — it *holds*, stone by stone, whatever is meant to last.

Forged in oxygen-burning massive stars. Together with oxygen, forms the silicate rock of every terrestrial planet.

Lab note · Forms, with oxygen, the silicate rock of every terrestrial planet; in the body a trace remains — ≈1 g in connective tissue.