etching

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On the picture’s lower left lie three tools of the engraver’s trade: two burins, for making large designs, and an etching needle for smaller ones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

Chip makers are the largest consumers of helium globally, using the gas to maintain stable temperatures while etching silicon wafers into advanced semiconductors.

From Barron's • Apr. 30, 2026

Until now, most MXenes have been produced using chemical etching, a process that leaves a mix of surface atoms such as oxygen, fluorine, or chlorine scattered randomly across the material.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

The venture would also presumably need equipment for etching and deposition, which are manufacturing and packaging processes.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

It was, I perceived, summer lightning cutting through the storm, etching mud and spire.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson