So, where is he getting all this silicon necessary to make the sand?

，要从哪弄到这些必要的硅元素来制造沙子？

Simka, who's 14, and little Boris, who's five.

{\an3}{\pos(374,247)}暗指元素硅[Si]和硼[Bo] 分别排在元素周期表的第14位和第5位西姆卡 14岁 小鲍里斯 5岁。

Such a tiny simple device made mostly from one single element, and yet revolutionizing our entire world.

这样一个小小的简单的装置主要只由硅这一个元素构，但对我们的整个世界具有革命性的影响。

Astronomers identified the silicon-rich rocky material by training the Hubble Space Telescope on the nearby Hyades star cluster.

天文学家通过培训哈勃望太空远观测附近的毕宿星团来确认富含硅元素的岩石物质。

Usually transistors are made with the element silicon. But the scientists say they use materials that have even better electronic properties.

通常晶体管是由硅元素制，但学家称使用了具有更好电子性能的材料。

LIBS detected aluminum, calcium, chromium, iron, manganese, oxygen, titanium, and silicon.

LIBS（激光诱导击穿光谱仪）检测到了铝、钙、铬、铁、锰、氧、钛和硅等元素。

Silicon is a semiconductor in an elemental sense.

硅在元素意义上是一种半导体。

The Earth is made up of iron, nickel, magnesium, silicon, and smaller concentrations of other elements.

地球由铁、 镍、 镁、 硅和少量其元素组。

But, Fairchild used the abundant silicon, which makes up about a quarter of the earth's crust!

但是，仙童公司使用了丰富的硅元素，它构了地壳的大约四分之一！

We're carbon-based lifeforms because there's a lot of carbon on Earth, but perhaps on another planet, something like silicon is the most abundant element, and therefore life could evolve from that.

人体的主要构元素是碳，因为地球上有很多碳，但或许在其星球上就不是这样。其星球上大量存在的可能是硅元素，外星生命就是以硅元素为基础的。

And when we say organocatalyst or organocatalysis, we mean that the catalyst is a small and well-defined organic molecule that consists mainly of elements such as carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, maybe, sulfur, phosphorus, silicon, but no metals.

当我们说有机催化剂或有机催化时，我们的意思是催化剂是一种小而明确的有机分子，主要由碳，氢，氧，氮，也许还有硫，磷，硅等元素组，但没有金属。

Some people think the creature is silicon-based, which is much less  readily available in the atmosphere of the ship, so if that were the case, it wouldn't have  enough building blocks to grow so quickly.

有人认为这种生物是硅基的，而在飞船的大气中硅元素的含量相对较少，因此如果真是如此， 它将缺乏足够的构建材料来支持如此迅速的生长。