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Haha, Star Trek 4 comes true!!! Transparent Aluminum!!!



<< ...the result of which is amzingly light but three times tougher than hardened steel of the same thickness >>



WOW:Q
 


<< lol i love the first reply in the first link >>


Me too!!!

Computer...Computer...COMPUTER!!!???

😛😛
 
I want transparent scissors!!! and a transparent refridgerator! and a transparent aluminum coffee cup!

I want everything that's not supposed to be transparent to be transparent!
 
Technically it's not aluminium:


<< Sorry. I should have read the blurb more carefully.

This isn't transparent aluminum; this is a transparent aluminum oxide. That is just not the same thing as aluminum anymore then water is Hydrogen gas, or table salt is the same thing as Sodium metal or Chlorine gas (both very harmful chemicals, sodium can explode when it comes in contact with water, and Chlorine can kill you in a few breaths, yet we eat salt all the time)

And secondly we have known about aluminum based compounds for a long time, in fact, longer then we have known about Aluminum or even about elements in general. Alum, the compound from which aluminum gets it's name (and which we extract aluminum from) has been known to man for ages and is, in fact, transparent. >>



(source: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/20/0358206&mode=thread)

=)
 
"Transparent aluminum?!"
"Aye. Would that be worth something to ya, laddy?"
"It'd take years just to work out the matrix!"
"Yes, but you'd be rich beyond the dreams of Avarice (or something like that)"
 


<< I stand corrected

I'd also like to say I'm in complete agreement with brxndxn I want a transparent tool shed.... >>




Waaaaahhhh... i want a transparent video card.....and a transparent gun.... and transparent money...... and transparent transparencies.... waaahh.....

😛

zs
 


<< I've heard they are even making transparent silicon oxide these days >>



I'm a poor chemist but i got that one and it's dumb 😛
 
I didn't think it was the superstructure. They just wated it to hold the whales. They had a huge volume of water and the transparent aluminum was really strong... and of course that way they got to look at the whales....
 
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