What is the Silicon metal ?

Metallic silicon is also important to the electronics industry because it is the base material used to make high purity polysilicon. These products are used in the manufacture of semiconductors, microchips for computers, and solar cells for capturing electrical energy from the sun.

How to produce Silicon metal ?

The material of Silicon metal are Silica ,Sawdust, Petroleum coke/carbon , etc, all material are smelted by arc furnace .
Different grade of Silicon metal , different material.

Usage:

Industrial Silicon metal has high content of Si element , so many steel mills sometimes will use industrial silicon metal instead of Ferro silicon when Ferro silicon’s price is higher .

Chemical Silicon metal is mainly used to produce solar and electronic.

Industrial Silicon metal and Chemical silicon metal can be processed to be Si powder for producing different of Ludox and other refractory product .

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