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Sounds like a hybrid between glass and "transparent aluminium".
by astrodust 11y ago
Sounds like a hybrid between glass and "transparent aluminium".
- justinsaccount 11y agoSo... Gorilla glass? edit: yeah... From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Glass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Glass Gorilla Glass is a brand of specialized toughened glass developed and manufactured by Corning, now in its fourth generation,[1] designed to be thin, light and damage-resistant. This type of glass is not unique to Corning; similar glasses include Asahi Glass Co. Dragontrail and Schott AG Xensation.[2][3] The alkali-aluminosilicate sheet glass [snip] (The link is to asahi.com)
- logfromblammo 11y agoGorilla glass uses a post-solidification hardening step. The glass described in the article uses a higher aluminum content than any other mass-produced glass, to the point where any contact with a solid surface would produce alumina crystals rather than incorporate the aluminum into the glass structure. So they levitated a glass bead with a continuous stream of air until it solidified. The bead is very strong, but they have no idea how to work the resulting glass into fibers or sheets.
- lovemenot 11y ago>> (The link is to asahi.com) Asahi Glass Co. is a separate company to Asahi Shimbun, the news organisation. AGC has a historical connection to the Mitsubishi group through the founder's family, but really is a wholly independent group of companies.
- fredkbloggs 11y agoAye, that's the ticket, laddie!
- DiabloD3 11y agoFor those downvoting this, please go watch Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Mz 11y agoYes, please. I upvoted it. It doesn't deserve any downvotes. Fiction becoming reality. I thought "transparent aluminum" was just completely made-up nonsense when I saw the movie. Whodda thunk!
- maxerickson 11y agoWhat if that's the reason they are downvoting it? The anti fun knob is probably unnecessarily cranked to 11 here, but movie references aren't really that funny.
- scintill76 11y ago> cranked to 11 here... movie references Intentional reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven#Original_scene_from_This_Is_Spinal_Tap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_to_eleven#Original_scene_fr... ?
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- Bud 11y agoUpvoted this to counteract the idiots.
- stephengillie 11y agoSapphire crystal [1] is something like transparent aluminum rust. Alumina [2] is too, I think. They might be the same thing, I'm not a chemist. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxide
- Florin_Andrei 11y agoSapphire and ruby are both aluminum oxide - i.e. 'alumina' - just with different kinds and amounts of impurities. Yes, it is technically the stuff you get when you throw aluminum powder over a fire and it lights up and burns brightly. But the crystals you obtain that way are very tiny.
- gjmulhol 11y agoAlumina is Al2O3 generally, and usually it is polycrystalline. Sapphire is specifically Al2O3 in a certain (very hard) crystal structure.
- vibrolax 11y agoWhile it's not quite transparent aluminum, transparent aluminum oxide ceramics like ALON are used for ballistic armor on ships, helicopters, and other military vehicles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnUszxx2pYc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnUszxx2pYc