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Easily Made Silicon-based Chemicals from Sand
I believe this new process of creating silicon-based chemicals from sand will revolutionize the industry by decreasing costs and increasing productivity.
University of Michigan Professor and materials scientist, Richard Laine, discovered a relatively non-toxic and inexpensive way of producing a many different kinds of silicon-based chemicals. This Process uses sand or rice hull ash and antifreeze to create needed chemicals while helping to decrease costs and increase environmental safety. This new process will enable companies to create silicon-based products without using the old method of using compounds like quartz sand (Si0 ), high temperatures, an electrical current, and a carbon compound (to bond with oxygen) to create impure silicon metal. This process is very expensive and creates many toxic byproducts. Still the old processes impure silicon is not yet ready for use and must still be purified even......
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