The city's fire department operates out of three (3) different fire stations. Each station is manned by at least two (2) firefighter-EMT's; and there are two (2) firefighter-paramedics assigned to each shift.
One of these materials - silicon - is making it possible for you to read these words right now! That's because silicon is the essential material in an electronic computer chip. Semiconductor means a material can conduct electricity with a bit of help in the form of added impurities..
Example: The steel used to make a single component of a complex product (for example, the steel used in the case of a computerâs floppy drive) is an early input into the computerâs manufacture, and is likely to constitute a very small portion of the final productâs total cost.