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Aluminum Oxynitride was described before Star Trek IV's "transparent aluminum" in 1986, so the suggested causative direction is backwards: Hartnett, T. M., Mag
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Aluminum Oxynitride was described before Star Trek IV's "transparent aluminum" in 1986, so the suggested causative direction is backwards:
Hartnett, T. M., Maguire, E. A., Gentilman, R. L., Corbin, N. D. & McCauley, J. W., Aluminum oxynitride spinel (ALON): A new optical and multimode window material. Ceram. Eng. and Sci. Proe., 3(1-2) (1982) 67.