[HN Gopher] Scientists succeed growing dolomite in lab by dissol...
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       Scientists succeed growing dolomite in lab by dissolving defects
       during growth
        
       Author : wglb
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2023-11-27 16:01 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (phys.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (phys.org)
        
       | idiliv wrote:
       | "Each atomic step would normally take over 5,000 CPU hours on a
       | supercomputer. Now, we can do the same calculation in 2
       | milliseconds on a desktop,"
       | 
       | Is this phrase equivalent to "Each atomic step would take 5,000
       | hours on a desktop. Now, it takes 2 CPU milliseconds on a
       | supercomputer."? ^^
        
         | chr1 wrote:
         | No, they have developed new software wich works much faster.
         | See a few paragraphs above the one you are quoting.
        
         | alacritas0 wrote:
         | I read it as: for the same calculation, what would have
         | previously taken 5,000 CPU cores * hours ran on a supercomputer
         | can now be run in 2 milliseconds on a desktop. Or about roughly
         | 10 orders of magnitude faster
        
       | tbruckner wrote:
       | It's dolomite, baby!
        
         | yellottyellott wrote:
         | I'm 40% dolomite!
        
         | pohl wrote:
         | Like Professor Farnsworth, my first thought was also Rudy Ray
         | Moore.
        
           | dekken_ wrote:
           | obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfgKJ9G_2fg
        
       | ChuckMcM wrote:
       | This is an interesting result. It makes me wonder if you could
       | grow a silicon ingot in this way. If so it would cut the cost of
       | silicon solar cells significantly (a big chunk of their cost is
       | the cost of the ingot, the ingot cost is a function of time to
       | produce, producing them quickly would get more ingots per unit
       | time from a given reactor).
       | 
       | Another crystal structure that would be useful would be sapphire
       | for things like sapphire screens and other covers.
        
       | adaml_623 wrote:
       | "A dollar might go further in a Dolamite account... " - Jingle
       | for the genx Aussies
        
         | dottjt wrote:
         | My dad took all the money in my Dolamite account when he split
         | with my mother. Good times.
        
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