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Why do silicon wafers break easily?

Note: This has nothing to do with internet retail. 

This is totally random, but I always wondered and my father-in-law (Ralph Ahlgren) was kind enough to give me an answer.

The real answer is that they really don’t break that easily (I mean, they won’t fall apart in your hands like I always thought they would), but are kind of brittle because they use single-crystal silicon (the atoms are carefully aligned in a single crystal form).

I posted the full answer on Sewell’s site: Why do silicon wafers break easily?

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