Silicon is non-toxic as the element and in all its natural forms, nameli silica and silicates, which are the most abundant. Elemental silicon is an inert material, which appears to lack the property of causing fibrosis in lung tissue.
Sponsored Topics. Itta Bena is a city in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 2,208 at the 2000 census. The town's name is derived from the Choctaw phrase iti bina, meaning forest camp. Itta Bena is part of the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area.
Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds. ( 1 CNN)Kunta Kinte Island sits at the mouth of the Gambia River. 2  Because the Gambian river runs like an artery from the Atlantic into Africa, it was a crucial passageway for the slave trade. 3  The island is also famous for its namesake: Kunta Kinte. Kinte was a character in Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Roots, and later of a miniseries by the same name.