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Six example sentences with doped, each labelled with its topic.
A doped silicon wafer conducts where pure silicon will not, which is why a few boron atoms per million matter so much.
Technology
The laser runs on a doped crystal, a rod of yttrium garnet seeded with neodymium during the growth process.
Science
Early flash bulbs used doped glass, tinted with metal salts so the color of the burst matched daylight film.
Photography
The biplane's linen wings were doped with cellulose lacquer, which shrank the fabric tight and kept out the weather.
History
A PET scanner relies on crystals doped with cerium, which flash briefly each time a particle strikes them.
Medicine
Every rooftop solar panel is a sandwich of doped silicon, one layer with phosphorus and one with boron.
Environment
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