Preprocessing step 2 (gem-gum factory)
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Overview
This is: Tooltip preparation / tooltip regeneration.
From here on out everything happens in machine phase.
From here on out everything: atom, molecule, and all bigger building-components are always and ever held onto.
Nothing is ever let go off. See: Never unclasp.
Here depleted tool-tips are:
- loaded up with feed-stock molecules (moieties) from preceding step: Preprocessing step 1 (gem-gum factory),
- Made highly reactive e.g. by ripping off some passivating hydrogen atoms.
- sent to the the next processing step which is: Assembly level 1 (gem-gum factory)
- depleted tips return to be reloaded again.
A closed cycle like this is a lot more complicated than this simple description might suggests.
A lot of theoretical work has been done for a closed cycle for the mechanosynthesis of diamond and closely related pure carbon structures.
See here: A minimal Toolset.
For further information visit the pages about
A note on irreversibility:
The tools are fully reusable (and reused in complex recharge cycles) but
the molecule fragments that are bond onto the tools (which constitute the payload)
are usually on an irreversible one-way-trip downstream to the next higher (first) assembly level.
