What does silicon-based mean?

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silicon-based

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English

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"silicon-based life"
"Core samples rich with the fossils of simple silicon-based organisms indicate Therum was more habitable in the past than it is at present."

carbon-based

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