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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
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Subject: Re: How do you make poly-silicon ingots?
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Date: 5 May 91 23:34:27 GMT
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That posting reminds me of something else.  Where exactly does semiconductor
silicon come from?  I vaguely remembering hearing that the starting
material comes from someplace weird, like it's a by-product of the
Bessemer converter process for making steel or something.