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Re: A certain lack of knowledge

Electric zone furnaces for highly purifying metals using this technique are nothing new. But that's only the starting point to making a crystal. to make an ingot which is also a single monolithic crystal, you have to start with a small single crystal as a seed and very slowly draw it through the furnace under extremely controlled conditions. This is not the cheap simple process you make it out to be. Nobody makes wire in any quantity this way and certainly not for audio systems. And there is no reason to. BTW, to be considered wire at least as it was explained to me in the wiremaking facility I was in, the material must be cold drawn. Otherwise it is rod. Once it is cold drawn, it will no longer be a single crystal no matter what it started out as.

"The development of the process is an outcome from the superconductor race. There, wire makes no difference"

Of course not, single crystal or not, once temperature drops below the critical superconducting temperature for the material specified, electrical resistance becomes zero.

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