Silicon Specimens (Lab grown)

Silicon Specimens (Lab grown)

In an unusual step, we've deliberately made a mistake on this page.

While it is perfectly fine to describe these items as 'Silicon Specimens', our category is called 'Minerals Q-Z'. Silicon is, of course, not a mineral, but an element!

These specimen pieces are a decent grade, and are available in a few sizes. They are oddly light for their size and fairly obvious metallic appearance - if you found one in the street you might think it was spraypainted plastic.

They are synthetic - lab grown pieces which are probably a byproduct of the manufacturing process for computer chips, metal alloys, silicon rubber, or solar panels.

Some pieces have a growth pattern visible that is quite similar to the growth pattern of artificial Quartz.