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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 372

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 372. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Fruit element named in 2020, dating back to 2010, but made by others.

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Apple silicon

Fruit (an apple) element (silicon, Si) named in 2020 (Apple first used the term in public when launching Apple silicon Macs at WWDC 2020), dating back to 2010 (the first Apple-designed SoC was the A4 introduced in the iPad in 2010), but made by others (Apple doesn’t make them, but TSMC and Samsung do).

2: Sand at over 1,400˚C is a unifying transparent fluid.

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Liquid Glass

Sand at over 1,400˚C (a typical minimum temperature for sand to fuse into liquid glass) is a unifying (launched at WWDC 2025, it’s a unified interface across Macs and devices) transparent fluid (the visual effect it uses).

3: PDF crystals found inside geodes and core graphics.

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Quartz

PDF (it’s based on PDF version 1.4) crystals (quartz) found inside geodes (some of the most beautiful quartz is found inside other rock as a geode) and core graphics (it’s part of that system introduced in Mac OS X and eventually replacing QuickDraw).

The common factor

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They are all based on the element silicon.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.