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Chip material shortage spooks Silicon Valley / Rare substance vital to 2 booming sectors, making prices rise 
Silicon Valley has weathered business cycles and foreign competition, but in recent months, a cloud has appeared on its horizon — a shortage of the highly purified form of silicon essential to making most computer chips and solar cells. Produced by a…

Chip material shortage spooks Silicon Valley / Rare substance vital to 2 booming sectors, making prices rise 
Clarification: A story Monday about a shortage of highly purified silicon used in computer chips and solar cells noted that the material was 99.99999 percent pure, a level referred to as “seven-nines.” But an analogy that used tennis balls to illustrate the “…

European satellite set to crash into moon 
The European Space Agency orbiter SMART-1 is expected to crash on the surface of the moon Sunday - on purpose.

European spacecraft slams into moon 
European scientists say they’re delighted after their satellite crashed on the moon, throwing up a cloud of debris and dust that they hope will give a better idea of the its composition and origin.

RASIRC Introduces the RainMaker Humidifier to Control and Purify the Water Vapor Added to a Carrier Gas Stream 
SAN DIEGO—-Sept. 18, 2006–RASIRC, the steam purification company, introduces the RainMaker Humidifier, a device that controls the transfer and purification of pure water or ammonia hydroxide directly into a carrier gas stream.

Sun worship dries up global silicon supplies 
Californias Silicon Valley is suffering acute shortages of the very material that gave it its name.