Jim, I remind you that this is a silicon-based form of life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Devil in the Dark] Reference

I don't particularly care if they're carbon- or silicon-based.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

Life forms native to Sarindar are silicon-based Invincible Book 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miracle Workers] Reference

Beings perhaps far different from the silicon-based life in my world.    From Wordnik.com.  [the 50.000+ hit awards « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

The song was of course connected to the core story about silicon-based life.    From Wordnik.com.  [October 24th, 2009] Reference

I am the most advanced silicon-based intelligence in the history of the planet.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

We suspect this is the analog of our silicon-based technology, but can't be sure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Meanwhile, our silicon-based progeny continue to develop, with or without our help.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speculist: September 2004 Archives] Reference

Could life have existed in some other way; not, say, carbon-based but silicon-based?.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times on the Smithsonian Affair - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

The planet is crystalline in nature, and the planet is populated by silicon-based life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miracle Workers] Reference

Companies like Luxtera already sell silicon-based optical devices for linking up computers.    From Wordnik.com.  [IBM Researchers Claim Chip Advance] Reference

Mostly, it favors silicon-based life -- as much a staple of space opera as bulbous eyeballs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seth Shostak: Life, But Not As We Know It] Reference

Dolahn may be an expert on silicon-based life, but he needs some work on the carbon-based variety.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miracle Workers] Reference

Or they always told us in xenobiology that it would be, if silicon-based life was ever discovered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference

Most probably, you have heard how silicon-based electrodes can boost the storage of Li-ion batteries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nano for batteries: the challenge of volumetric density] Reference

She's a silicon-based lifeform, though so Bones responds "Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor not a bricklayer!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dammit Jim, I'm a Doctor, not Star Trek Website Troller!] Reference

Apparently he had been hired by the Nalori government because of his work with silicon-based life forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miracle Workers] Reference

CHEVY CHASE, ACTOR: This is a new non-caloric silicon-based kitchen lubricant my company has been working on.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2002] Reference

But silicon-based cells capture more of the sun's energy per square meter than alternatives, Mr. Wilson said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intel Plans to Spin Off] Reference

Unlike silicon-based solar, which has been around for 50 years, thin film hasn't been proven on a large scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going Solar One BetterNewer Solar Technologies Get Day In The Sun] Reference

Konarka's integrated roofing material uses plastic sheets of polymer materials instead of silicon-based panels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raise the Roof: Power Source] Reference

They did A Midsummer Night's Dream and the silicon-based rock kid proudly portrayed the "wall" in Pyramus and Thisbe.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature] Reference

A Gallamite, Dolahn was an expert in silicon-based life, hence his being assigned to the project by the Nalori Republic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miracle Workers] Reference

The product, InVisage says, captures more than 90% of the available light, compared with 25% for a silicon-based sensor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Winners, Category by Category] Reference

And silicon-based life makes at least some sense, since the element lies immediately beneath carbon in the periodic table.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seth Shostak: Life, But Not As We Know It] Reference

Before I ever saw that episode, "A Devil in the Dark," I'd written a short story about a sentient, silicon-based asteroid.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: The Best Aliens in Science Fiction] Reference

Though tools have evolved from flint-edged axes to silicon-based computers, we've historically had to accommodate technology.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Scarborough: The Post-Humanism of Peter Santi] Reference

Would he change his mind only AFTER he discovered that someone who had become his close friend turned out to be silicon-based?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Area clergy make room for evolution with the divine - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

I do think that humanitarian impulses should have kicked in at this point, but we're dealing here with silicon-based lifeforms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apparently, I was wrong about that racism.] Reference

And if they don't find organic molecules, I'm rooting for some strange silicon-based information-rich chains in that Martian soup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marty Kaplan: Ice on Mars: Good for the Jews?] Reference

A textbit explained that these were silicon-based lifeforms, and gave lots of data on silicon carbide, life cycles, habitat and more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 9.2 of 31.1] Reference

Molecule-based integrated circuits could be reduced to a scale many orders of magnitudes smaller than silicon-based electronics allows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 - Information for the Public] Reference

The shii and the other silicon-based life on this planet are my specialty, and I can assure you that this is not a shii found in nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miracle Workers] Reference

Naraht was one of the thirty thousand children born of the last hatching of the Horta, that now-famous silicon-based creature native to Janus VI.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages] Reference

A leaf is about 30-40% efficient at converting light to electricity and this compares with just a 12% efficiency for conventional silicon-based solar cells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lean Left » Blog Archive » The Importance of Funding Research] Reference