• evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    AFAIK, that’s also how microprocessors are made; single crystals of silicon, though that’s a metalloid not a metal.

    This is also a big part of why manufacturing in space has huge potential. In micro-gravity, crystal formation is less effected. I risk it’s a bigger deal for things like proteins, optics, and other non-metal things, though.