What are silicon wafers made of?
Silicon wafers take polysilicon, quartz and argon directly. Trace them back and you pass 10 made things on the way to 8 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 8 raw materials
- Quartz goes straight in
- Air through argon
- Coal through polysilicon, metallurgical silicon
- Timber through polysilicon, metallurgical silicon
- Water through polysilicon, hydrogen
- Natural gas through polysilicon, hydrogen
- Rock salt through polysilicon, hydrochloric acid, chlorine
- Sulfur through polysilicon, hydrochloric acid, chlorine, sulfuric acid