(April 5, 2021 at 10:01 am)polymath257 Wrote:(April 5, 2021 at 9:58 am)Fireball Wrote: Well, SiO₂ lies on the...ground, and CO₂ floats. Try inhaling SiO₂. At least one can exhale CO₂ easily.
Why do you assume oxygen would be involved?
or that the SiO2 wouldn't be the equivalent of poop?
Good points. I was only addressing Silicon because Ignoramous mentioned it. A chalcogen besides Oxygen doesn't have anything mitigating against it. Though they are also "solids" at our temperature levels. It would make for a slow-moving set of flora and fauna, unless they were in a much higher temperature regime. I dunno what that would look like, that would be science fiction, to me.
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