It's in German, but it basically says that they heated up aluminiumoxide to 1200 K, apply some magic, and out comes a 10 by 10 by 1 cm plate weighing 400 gram and transparant!
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[ February 19, 2002, 11:21: Message edited by: Harry ]
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Wow... and everyone dismissed the idea of transparent aluminium as another Trekkian fantasy...
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Reguarding that scene - when Dr. Nicols is contemplating what McCoy and Scotty are offering him... who was that chick that comes in... was she coming in for a bit of office hanky-panky!?! ;o)
Oh, and the real test will be two whales and lots of sea-water. ;o)
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Oh, BTW it's spelt "Transparent"
[ February 19, 2002, 08:40: Message edited by: AndrewR ]
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One assumes the class on the creation of Transparent Aluminium will be a feature of the next Harry Potter book. Though Christ only knows what Ron's doomed-to-failure attempt will produce. 8)
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Hmm... which would be worse: being thrown through a windshield onto the pavement at 45 mph, or being splatted against the inside of said windshield at 45 mph? I'd think the deceleration of hitting the windshield and stopping would be far greater, and thus so would the force, but...
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"Tank page frame protects Dresdner researcher against projectiles transparent and extremely hard page frames developed. By the material, from which visors can firingfixed be manufactured, also the pentagon is fascinated. DPA transparent aluminum tile America weapon technician show interest in a tank page frame from Dresden. In there Fraunhofer-Institut for ceramic technologies succeeded in baking fine-grained alumina in such a way with 1200 degrees Celsius in the furnace that an extremely hard, transparent material develops. A 10 times 10 centimeters large disk (strength: only about 400 gram weigh, are however three times harder 1.0 cm as hardened steel. With firing tests under contract of the German Federal Armed Forces from the Bundeswehr in Koblenz " outstanding results " were obtained, report the researcher Andreas Krell. Also in the US state Idaho were examined the tiles: The pentagon is fascinated of the transparency of the material, with which firingfixed of visors or large windows of armored reconnaissance vehicles can be built."
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oh, plus i read an article about polarizing the plating of tanks to destroy bullets before impact in popular science last month
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