- A ceramic research lab in Dresden, Germany, has developed
transparent Alumina by subjecting fine-grained (I'm guessing extremely
fine-grained) aluminum to a whopping 1200 degrees Celsius ...the result
of which is amazingly light but three times tougher than hardened steel
of the same thickness, and it's see-through.
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- Needless to say, the Pentagon is quite interested.
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- For story (in German)
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- http://www.spiegel.de
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- Update
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- From Randy
- 2-25-2
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- According to a post at Slashdot (News for Nerds) this
is not transparent aluminum but transparent Alumina, which is aluminum
oxide - Al2-O3.
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