Silicon isn't the cheapest, sand is. The manufacturing price of the silice mono crystal is high and very similar of that from mono crystal fabrication of any other substance. Artificial diamonds as raw material isn't much more expensive, used in the industry since a long time, manufactured in mass for cutting tools, drills, abrasive material..., nothing to do with the ones for jewelery.
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