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..
Or what about at school and work? Computers are supposed to help make a non-paper society, but they actually create more paper in the world! We now generate more paper than ever before because of computers! Many items in our work life include paper, such as money, stock certificates, deeds of ownership, checks etc. Just about all of the documents we use to run our lives are made out of paper! Even packaging uses paper, paperboard is probably the most used form of paper in our life, how else would we ship fragile items like light bulbs and microwaves?!