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You do realize that table salt is a "chlor- compound", right? Yes, refining silicon requires the use of dangerous chemicals. No, that does not make it "dirty"
by smaddox 8y ago
You do realize that table salt is a "chlor- compound", right?
Yes, refining silicon requires the use of dangerous chemicals. No, that does not make it "dirty" in the way that burning coal is dirty, i.e. expelling carcinogens into the air.
- agumonkey 8y agoI know but still.
- ben_w 8y agoNo, not “but still”. Water is one oxygen atom from being bleach. Chlorine is metabolically essential. Chemistry doesn’t care about buzzwords. If you don’t specify what exactly is bad about the industrial handling of whichever chemicals actually are toxic in this case, you’re just flag-waving, not helping.
- agumonkey 8y agowhat buzzword, the cleaner the process the easier it is to produce anywhere, the easier it is to use solar instead of fossile fuel. I just forgot the actual name: tetrachlorosilane when I typed my first comment To avoid this http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/08/AR2008030802595.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03...