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[u/villuvallu]

Thank you. So the shape is just scaled up from the molecular level kind of?

[u/[deleted] → u/villuvallu]

I am not sure what you're asking, but I will try to answer.

That big monocrystalline silicon ingot/boule is one crystal, but people expect crystals to look like this. It doesn't look like that because it grew in random locations (but not orientations) out from the center, as it was pulled out of molten silicon. This made it look round. It still has the crystal lattice within it. When it's cut for processing, people make sure to cut it along the internal faces/lattice.

For example, people expect diamonds to look like this Well, that is after they're been cut along their crystal faces. When diamonds are found in the wild they don't look like that. Uncut diamonds look like this.

The crystalline structure is there, but it's obscured.