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There is only a handful of companies capable of making perfect silicon wafers, and none is headquartered in either the U.S. or China. And there is only one site in the world capable of making the quartz sand for the crucibles where those wafers are crystallised. When politicians talk lazily about re-shoring, it often betrays a deep ignorance of what is happening out there in the Material World.
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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