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Can Transparent Aluminum be far behind?......

1 posted on 07/30/2013 6:47:57 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To make the sapphire, aluminum oxide is melted down in a specialized furnace and then allowed to slowly cool to form a large crystal.

Your Next Smartphone Screen May Be Made of Sapphire
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2999008/posts
3/20/2013

2 posted on 07/30/2013 6:51:34 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)

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“Computer?”

3 posted on 07/30/2013 6:51:44 AM PDT by BipolarBob

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He took a lot of LDS when he went to Berkeley.

5 posted on 07/30/2013 6:58:07 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")

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More exotically, there are mathematically permissible arrangements of points in three dimensions that are isotropic with neither periodicity nor quasiperiodicity.

Does this feel like faster - much faster - computers?

13 posted on 07/30/2013 7:18:22 AM PDT by GOPJ (Sob stories make bad law...)

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Transparent aluminum was invented in 2009.

http://phys.org/news167925273.html

Granted, it’s only transparent to extreme ultraviolet light. But it’s a start.

21 posted on 07/30/2013 7:51:11 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Be Brave! Fear is just the opposite of Nar!)

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Lmao!!! I immediately thought of that scene!!

“Helloooo computer...”

22 posted on 07/30/2013 7:57:42 AM PDT by ObozoMustGo2012

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Lulz u the silleh

25 posted on 07/30/2013 8:03:23 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)

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Wasn’t that the movie where Spock hugged a sperm whale?

26 posted on 07/30/2013 8:32:36 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (I hear wet grass.)

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OLD MEN IN PAJAMAS IN SPACE IV

(IV stands for intravenous)

27 posted on 07/30/2013 8:40:10 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (I hear wet grass.)

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