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“extremely rare” is a way of saying second most common that I haven’t heard before.
The rare stone thing would be better for nuclear power. Find lots of rare stone, put it together in a huge pile, they get warm and cause mysterious diseases.
Silicon is just the base material. The whole process involves a whole bunch of other chemicals, and some of those are made of much rarer stuff than silicon.
Sure, Silicon works as a cheap base. Boron, phosphorus, arsenic and antimony are also used in the process, though. Other elements are also finding use in the process.
There is also a minor error in the middle about the ‘sigils’. When scribing process is happening, the other elements are embedded into or deposited onto the substrate between ‘scribings’.
I don’t think they mean silicon, I think they mean gold, which is also a crucial component to electronics.
Gold also isn’t all that rare. It’s value is so high because of jewelry marketing, not rarity.
You may be confusing with diamonds. Gold is, and in fact, any element heavier than iron are pretty rare because they cannot be created by stars alone according to current models, they need more extreme and rare astrophysics phenomenons like supernova and black holes.
Yes I think that is the exact confusion I had.
Technically correct but just cause there are minerals in the ground doesn’t mean they can be extracted.
Maybe i am wrong but i keep hearing about silicon being harder to come, i suppose op was specifically speaking about the silicon usable for computing.
silicon being harder to come
interesting silicone usually makes it easier for me to come
The masks used in litography to compensate distortion of details smaller than wavelength are pretty much at the point of being magic circles.
https://www10.edacafe.com/blogs/editorial/files/2023/03/nvidia.pngCare to eli5 what you’re talking about?
Here’s a presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAB6Xh8L1kk
They’re basically generating weird patterns that manipulate light to project a very precise shadow.
reminds me of this insanity https://youtu.be/wk67eGXtbIw
Did YT decide to suggest this to you recently?
No I just like Steve and optics
Just curious because it started throwing it into recommended for me again.
Praise the Omnissiah
Out of the loop? I know that China is no longer allowing export of rare metals, did the situation escalate?
The image is from 2022, so i doubt your missing any recent news
