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Back in the ovens, the wafers are baked again in an atmosphere of gases loaded with "dopants." Like oil stains in a concrete driveway, these impurities soak into the underlying silicon. Since chips usually contain as many as ten layers, all these steps-"rusting," photomasking, etching, baking, etc.-must be repeated for each layer. Then the entire wafer is coated with an aluminum conductor, which also must be masked, etched and bathed in acid. Finally, an eagle-eyed computerized probe scans the wafer for defective circuitry and marks the bad chips in red. The wafer is then separated...
...entire Harvard team seemed to soak up Gillette's adrenalin and captain John Chipman next went on the strip, beating Dan Anthony, 5-4 by catching him with a running lunge and touching him just before he went off the edge of the strip...
...acre to plant the good vines-though the return can be bountiful: around 3,000 bottles. The further cost of fertilizing, weeding, spraying, pruning, picking, vinification and bottling makes wine a costly enterprise. Then add the investment in sophisticated equipment: a single stainless-steel 1,000-gal. vat can soak the vintner for some...
...estimated $700,000 each, plus the cost of the missiles-is unknown. The prime candidates are the 240 "G" and "H" models that have been built since 1959. The remaining 90 B-52s are up to 21 years old. The cost of refitting the B-52s will soak up much of the money saved by abandoning the B1. The rest of the money may well be diverted to other military projects or used to shrink budget deficits...
...enervating heat compounded by the hot dustbowl winds that strafe the course make Southern Hills an even sterner test of stamina. The course must be watered in the middle of the tournament and on a single hot day will soak up 400,000 gallons of water...