Silicon (1979)

Volcanic eruption.

Liquid lava.

Panorama of the rocks.

Crystals.

Various minerals.

Birds over the sea.

Underwater shooting.

Silicon skeletons of radiolarians and diatoms.

Two people are walking through the forest.

Minerals.

Portrait of the Swedish chemist Berzelius.

Production of amorphous silicon from silicon dioxide and magnesium (experiment).

Silicon in the periodic table.

Crystalline silicon.

Comparison of the crystal lattice of silicon and diamond.

The workshop of the metallurgical plant.

Laboratory.

Semiconductors made of silicon.

The launch of the spacecraft.

Solar panels powering space equipment (animation).

Lunokhod.

Experiments.

Silicates.

The structure of different silicates.

Experiments.

Laboratory glassware of their quartz glass.

Heating of quartz glass.

The heated glass is immersed in cold water.

A record rotating on the turntables.

Quartz crystals.

Mica crystals.

Mica structure (animation).

Asbestos.

Fire extinguishing.

Glass making (old engravings).

Laboratory.

Laboratory simulation of the formation of silicates in the Earth's crust.

A piece of glass.

Obtaining glass with various properties.

Making a vase.

Processing of a crystal jug.

Products made of colored glass.

Manufacture of porcelain products.

Porcelain tableware.

Production of ceramic tiles.

Tiles.

Brick making.

Construction of concrete blocks.

Concrete structures.

Gas surfacing.

Optical lenses.

Electron microscopes.

Production of a reactor chamber for controlled fusion plants.

Samples of minerals.