What are Silicon based life-forms and what temperature would be required to sustain them?

Question

My chemistry professor was explaining today that it is believed that there can be Silicon based life-forms at very high temperatures. Could someone please better explain this theory and give me an idea on what sort of temperatures would be required to host such a thing?

Answer 1

Si is right below C in the periodic table. It would, therefore, have many properties in common with carbon, including possible bonds with other elements. Each can form 4 bonds. It would seem possible that in the absence of much carbon and abundant silicon, life might have developed differently. Carbon, being a simpler element, probably won the race to life because it is simpler and more common.

Answer 2

I don't think it's possible to have a silicon based life form.

To the best of our knowledge, all of life needs carbon to exist.


I hope I was helpful. Good luck!

Answer 3

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