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This week's images for Microscope Monday is of a hunk of solar grade silicon crystal. Natural fracture faces and cut and polished.
The cross-cut was polished up to 1000 grit. Not a lot to see here, it's close to pure semiconductor grade silicon. Over the area that was cut an polished only a single crystal lattice formed as such the cross-cut is uniform.
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