ENERGY ASSISTANCE FUNDS ARE STILL AVAILABLE! Funds are still available for low income Washington County residents who could use help with their electricity, natural gas, wood, propane or oil costs. Community Actionâs Energy Assistance Program operates year round, from October 1 through September 30, not just in the winter months.
- Carbon is a nonmetal, and silicon is a metalloid. - Carbon and silicon have the same common electron configuration as s 2, p 2. But in silicon, the electrons are spread into the 3rd energy level, whereas in carbon it is only to the 2nd energy level.
1 Silicon atoms are larger than carbon atoms; they are able to bond to four oxygen atoms. 2  Quartz (SiO 2) is an extended network of SiO 4 molecules, in which a central silicon atom is bonded to four oxygen atoms; each silicon atom has a half share of four oxygen atoms. Both are covalent compounds, but because carbon is such a small atom it can form four bonds around it, making it capable of forming double bonds with oxygen; carbon dioxide is composed of individual molecules.