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Originally Posted by vicky_molokh
I'm pretty sure that in the era when minifactoring is displacing traditional production of goods due to being in multiple ways better, the chemicals used in goods will differ from modernity, with more focus on those that are easier to find.
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Has minifacturing canonically displaced traditional systems in most cases? I don't recall that, and it seems unlikely. Specialist production systems will surely always be more efficient for any given single task than generalised systems, so anything for which there's reasonably reliable substantial demand will be produced by conventional factories, which can out-compete the minifactories.
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Originally Posted by sir_pudding
Tramutation of transuranics is a little different than making say stable iron from hydrogen.
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Yep. "Transmutation" for the specific purpose of nuclear fuel production was, I thought, pretty obviously not what I was talking about.