Space: The final frontier in silicon chemistry
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 04:30
in Astronomy & Space
Silicon, which is one of the most common elements in Earth’s crust, is also sprinkled abundantly throughout interstellar space. The only way to identify silicon-containing molecules in the far corners of the cosmos – and to understand the chemistry that created them – is to observe through telescopes the electromagnetic radiation the molecules emit.