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The thin slices shown in the photos seemed a bit suspicious, so I looked at the paper and they seem to be a millimeter thick: > The obtained transparent wood (
by nitwit005 6y ago
The thin slices shown in the photos seemed a bit suspicious, so I looked at the paper and they seem to be a millimeter thick:
> The obtained transparent wood (~1 mm in thickness)
And the wood was also from a balsa wood log, so this method is making something remarkably flimsy.
At least from what I saw in a previous paper on this idea, it sounds like it's fairly difficult to get the epoxy into a thicker wood sample.
- mkl 6y agoThis is also mentioned near the start of the linked article: "Starting with planks of wood a metre long and one millimetre thick"
- ksaj 6y agoThey also say it is effective up to 3mm with the balsa wood.
- mdoms 6y agoCan you please read the article before posting? The thickness is mentioned in the article and also the fact that the technique works for numerous species of wood.
- nitwit005 6y agoCan you read the hacker news guidelines? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html