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Silicon

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means a hard, brittle metalloid element, fundamental to electronics and glass
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Stage 1 of 2
silex
Latin · ancient
"flint"
flint, a hard stone rich in the element later isolated from it
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Stage 2 of 2
silicon
English · 1817
"a hard, brittle metalloid element"
coined for the newly isolated element found abundantly in sand and rock
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