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Silicon doesn’t rust..... silicon is forever


30 posted on 02/11/2017 5:47:30 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: bert
"Silicon doesn’t rust..... silicon is forever"

Actually, it does. It just takes longer. The end product is sand (SiO2).

33 posted on 02/11/2017 5:56:55 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
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Its traces and components do, however.

Rendering it only “fused sand.”


34 posted on 02/11/2017 5:57:23 AM PST by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticides, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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How many old computers are sitting in your closet?

About three to five years, then the silicon is useless junk.


70 posted on 02/11/2017 7:41:03 AM PST by ptsal
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