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Silicon has a relatively large latent heat of vaporization of 12800 J/g. This indicates that silicon has:

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I believe it means that it takes a lot of heat in joules to make silicon vaporize so it stays solid until a great deal of heat has been added. By comparison, water has a latent heat of about 2260 joules per gram so vaporizes much more readily than silicon.
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