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Salinas 1
Alba Salinas
Joseph Kyger
Chemistry
10/12/2015
Silicon based life
All known life on Earth is built upon carbon and carbon-based compounds. Yet the possibility has been
discussed that life elsewhere may have a different chemical foundation – one based on the element silicon.
Early speculation
In 1891, the German astrophysicist Julius Scheiner became perhaps the first person to
