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ICs need very difficult to handle chemicals like hydrofluroric acid to manufacture though. That kind of stuff will never be DIY.
by narrator 8y ago
ICs need very difficult to handle chemicals like hydrofluroric acid to manufacture though. That kind of stuff will never be DIY.
- gnode 8y agoFrom the premise of the question on SO: > For convenience, we assume that the humans would not age or die during their participation in this experiment. Not dying will come in very handy when handling the chemicals.
- qbrass 8y agoThey'll realize not dying or aging is more useful than running Windows 1.0 and drag out the process forever.
- Keyframe 8y agoYes, but two things := DIYers on another level, not 'lemme watch some youtube tutorials, I can build this in a weekend' and second thing - alternative methods might be developed in the (near) future. To do what is proposed here (and for a bunch of other goodies) you would be able to do A LOT of things on a micron level. It would be a great start and a revolution of sorts.
- philipkglass 8y agoI have distilled HF out of powdered fluorspar and sulfuric acid in a home lab, from a lead tube I rolled out of sheet. I was borrowing steps described in an industrial chemistry encyclopedia from the 1860s. (All I did with it was conclusively etch/dissolve the glass receiving vessel. I didn’t have a proper receiver made of lead or paraffin-coated glass.) This sort of thing is admittedly quite hazardous. But if you look at older chemistry publications, you might be surprised what is possible with relatively crude equipment.