merealaseids
Merealaseids are a hypothetical class of organisms that have been proposed in speculative biology and science fiction. The concept generally refers to life forms that are not based on carbon-based chemistry, which is the foundation of all known life on Earth. Instead, merealaseids are imagined to utilize silicon as their primary structural element, or silicon-based compounds as their primary building blocks for life's complex molecules.
The idea stems from the fact that silicon shares some chemical properties with carbon. Both are in
However, significant scientific challenges exist for such hypothetical life. Silicon bonds are generally stronger and less