soviet Silicon and Germanium

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 5:15 am    Post subject: soviet Silicon and Germanium Reply with quote

Hi guys,
Good Morning Steve Smile

I've visited "Quasar" here in Kiev (where the very first soviet CPU was manufactured in 1977) hoping to find/scrounge some chips/wafers in a forgotten basement Smile
Not too successfully as for chips, but...

I've got these two pieces of silicon.
Aren't they lovely?

The cylinder has diameter of one inch exactly
Is it for 1" wafers?

And what is the cube for ?

I don't know why, but the cube is much heavier/denser than the cylinder.
Why ?

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 3:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you make building photos? I love to watch abandoned factories Smile
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 18, 2014 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Komz wrote:
Did you make building photos? I love to watch abandoned factories Smile


it's still alive Smile http://www.kwazar-is.kiev.ua/english.htm

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 1:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What a nice couple of objects - MAYBE the block is not silicon hence heavier? I often dream that I can find the Intel factory in Hong Kong and in a dark store room find some old C4004's in a nice NOS box...... does anyone know where the address of that factory would have been?
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 2:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Vlasta wrote:
MAYBE the block is not silicon hence heavier?

Bingo!

the bloc's sizes approximately are 2,8x3,4x3,6 cm = 34,272 cc

and it weights 182 g

the density is about 5,31

where is my handbook on the Physics ???

so... it's a bloc of pure Germanium!

Thanks!

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 2:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

iguana wrote:
Vlasta wrote:
MAYBE the block is not silicon hence heavier?

Bingo!

the bloc's sizes approximately are 2,8x3,4x3,6 cm = 34,272 cc

and it weights 182 g

the density is about 5,31

where is my handbook on the Physics ???

so... it's a bloc of pure Germanium!

Thanks!


WOW - now that is a valuable item indeed!!

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 2:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

to be sure I've measured the cylinder

weight 86 g
volume 36,5 сс

I've got the density about 2,35 g/cc
the handbook says it's 2,33 for Silicon

no any doubt now

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 2:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lucky find.
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