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Chapter 3

Materials

What’s On The Menu?

If you’re getting the idea that much • Alumina
of what our family does revolves • Aluminum Nitride

around food, well you’re not that • Boron Carbide

far off. • Boron Nitride
• Composite

We all laughed when Joe Jr. Materials (CMC
Materials)
commented that the Bomas • CVD Silicon
materials list reads like the menu Carbide

at an exclusive restaurant for fussy • Fused Silica

engineers. “Lots of options,” he said. • Fused Quartz
“The only difference is at Bomas • Glass

they bring their own food.” • Macor

• Mullite
• Sapphire
(Industrial
Ground Sapphire)

• Silicon

• Silicon Carbide
• Silicon Nitride

• Sintered &
Reaction-Bonded
Silicon/Carbide
• Zirconia
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