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Re: A certain lack of knowledge

" I distinctly said ingot, not wire. And secondly, I did not say it was cheap: I said it was not as technically difficult"

As a single monolithic crystal with no grain boundaries? Is that what you are saying? I just want to be sure I understood what you mean. Why would growing such a crystal from a metal like silver or copper be any different or easier than from a semiconductor like silicon? The crystal puller we had at one facility I worked in cost $2 million. That was over 20 years ago. BTW, how do you define "cheap?" As I recall, there are only 14 different geometric crystal configurations possible not counting the variable of atom to atom distances.

BTW, why are we having this discussion? I just brought up the subject because someone wanted an example of a wire myth. At least one manufacturer claims his wire is a single monolithic crystal with no grain boundaries.

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