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Transparent Aluminum is Here
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| 8/23/2004
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Posted on 08/23/2004 7:16:42 AM PDT by sionnsar
from the like-blue-LEDs dept. Alien54 writes "Scientists in the US have developed a novel technique to make bulk quantities of glass from alumina for the first time. (link includes a picture of samples)
Anatoly Rosenflanz and colleagues at 3M in Minnesota used a "flame-spray" technique to alloy alumina (aluminium oxide) with rare-earth metal oxides to produce strong glass with good optical properties. The method avoids many of the problems encountered in conventional glass forming and could, say the team, be extended to other oxides (see also: A Rosenflanz et al. 2004 Nature 430 761).
Scotty would be pleased."
TOPICS: Technical
KEYWORDS: aluminium; aluminum; glass; invention
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:16:42 AM PDT
by
sionnsar
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:16:55 AM PDT
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi ||| Resource for Traditional Anglicans: trad-anglican.faithweb.com)
To: sionnsar
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:17:22 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
(Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
To: Pyro7480
"Hello, computer..." ;-) "A mouse...how quaint..."
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:18:25 AM PDT
by
DouglasKC
To: sionnsar
Scotty would be pleased."Aye!
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:18:42 AM PDT
by
JoeSixPack1
(Kerry couldn't have gone to Sears in Cambodia Christmas day! They were closed!)
To: DouglasKC
I thought he said "A keyboard, how quaint."
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:18:55 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
(Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
To: Pyro7480
Ahhh...transparent aluminum. That's tha' ticket, Laddie...
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:19:15 AM PDT
by
TheBigB
(Sure wish -I- had one'a them anti-shrew barrels...)
To: sionnsar
"How do you know he didn't invent the stuff?"
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:19:17 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Like sittin' on pins and needles, things fall apart. It's scientific.)
To: Pyro7480; JoeSixPack1
To: Pyro7480
But is this stuff strong enough to hold in two whales, plus all that water?
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:19:55 AM PDT
by
JenB
To: DouglasKC; Pyro7480
Yes. It was "KEYboard...how quaint!" < cracks knuckles >
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:20:16 AM PDT
by
TheBigB
(Sure wish -I- had one'a them anti-shrew barrels...)
To: sionnsar
uh... are any whales missing from Seaworld?
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:20:36 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))
To: Pyro7480
He did say "a keyboard, how . . "
Kirk handed Scotty the mouse and he spoke into it, then someone pointed out the keyboard.
First flip phones, now aluminium, soon warp drive, I hope.
I want to leave and settle on New Israel.
To: sionnsar
The link doesn't work for me.
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:21:42 AM PDT
by
bert
(Peace is only halftime !)
To: JenB
I thought they just used plexiglass in the movie.
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:21:43 AM PDT
by
Pyro7480
(Sub tuum praesidium confugimus, sancta Dei Genitrix.... sed a periculis cunctis libera nos semper...)
To: TheBigB; Pyro7480
Yes. It was "KEYboard...how quaint!" < cracks knuckles > My bad....it's hard enough to be perfect in most things without having to remember Star Trek dialogue exactly!
To: sionnsar
"Transparent Aluminum is Here"
Well, it's about time
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:22:13 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
(Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
To: MeanWestTexan
Kirk handed Scotty the mouse and he spoke into it, then someone pointed out the keyboard. ?
It wasn't Kirk, it was the company man.
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:22:31 AM PDT
by
TheBigB
(Sure wish -I- had one'a them anti-shrew barrels...)
To: sionnsar
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:23:04 AM PDT
by
boris
(The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a Leftist with a word processor)
To: sionnsar
The headline is misleading. Alumina is an oxide of aluminum not a metal. Where do journalists get their science training, public school?
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posted on
08/23/2004 7:23:18 AM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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