{"id":25855,"date":"2018-08-11T12:46:20","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T16:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=25855"},"modified":"2018-08-11T12:46:20","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T16:46:20","slug":"the-ultra-pure-super-secret-sand-that-makes-your-phone-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2018\/08\/11\/the-ultra-pure-super-secret-sand-that-makes-your-phone-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultra-Pure, Super-Secret Sand That Makes Your Phone Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Wired<\/em> magazine has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/book-excerpt-science-of-ultra-pure-silicon\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Ultra-Pure, Super-Secret Sand That Makes Your Phone Possible<\/a>&#8216;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt\u2019s quartz, but not just any quartz. Spruce Pine, it turns out, is the source of the purest natural quartz\u2014a species of pristine sand\u2014ever found on Earth.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Having been involved in one way or another with silicon for all of my career, I thought this article was very interesting without being too overly hyped up except for, perhaps, the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired magazine has the article The Ultra-Pure, Super-Secret Sand That Makes Your Phone Possible&#8216; It\u2019s quartz, but not just any quartz. Spruce Pine, it turns out, is the source of the purest natural quartz\u2014a species of pristine sand\u2014ever found on Earth. Having been involved in one way or another with silicon for all of my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25856,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25855\/revisions\/25856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}