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Transparent Aluminum Is ‘New State Of Matter’
Science Daily ^
| (July 27, 2009)
| staff
Posted on 07/27/2009 11:22:27 AM PDT by saganite
Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray laser. ‘Transparent aluminium’ previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion.
In the journal Nature Physics an international team, led by Oxford University scientists, report that a short pulse from the FLASH laser ‘knocked out’ a core electron from every aluminium atom in a sample without disrupting the metal’s crystalline structure. This turned the aluminium nearly invisible to extreme ultraviolet radiation.
''What we have created is a completely new state of matter nobody has seen before,’ said Professor Justin Wark of Oxford University’s Department of Physics, one of the authors of the paper. ‘Transparent aluminium is just the start. The physical properties of the matter we are creating are relevant to the conditions inside large planets, and we also hope that by studying it we can gain a greater understanding of what is going on during the creation of 'miniature stars' created by high-power laser implosions, which may one day allow the power of nuclear fusion to be harnessed here on Earth.’
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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: aluminium; aluminum; coldfusion; engineering; fusion; science; startrek; stringtheory
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:22:27 AM PDT
by
saganite
To: saganite
“Is it worth something to ya laddie; or should I just punch up ‘clear’”?
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:23:33 AM PDT
by
GunRunner
To: saganite
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:23:50 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(If you can't be a good example, at least don't be a horrible lesson)
To: saganite
http://mattdavid.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/scotty-trek4.jpg Agggh, laddie, we had transparent aluminum twenty years ago!
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:24:50 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: saganite
Its gonna be useful in the nuclear wessels.
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:24:52 AM PDT
by
Armedanddangerous
(I think youre so full of inconsolable rage you don't care who you hurt)
To: saganite
Make like Clark Kent and watch the coffee perk. Yeah! Bring it on!
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:24:56 AM PDT
by
668 - Neighbor of the Beast
("Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless.")
To: silverleaf
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:25:03 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
To: silverleaf
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:25:11 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: saganite
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:25:27 AM PDT
by
SlowBoat407
(Achtung. preparen zie fur die obamahopenchangen.)
To: saganite
“Use the keyboard? How crude.”
To: Petronski
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:26:30 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(If you can't be a good example, at least don't be a horrible lesson)
To: saganite
Transparent aluminium but will hold beer???
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:27:07 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
To: saganite
“A keyboard....how quaint.”
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:27:13 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
To: saganite
‘Transparent aluminium’ previously only existed in science fiction Um, hello? Sapphire is transparent aluminum...
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:27:55 AM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Texan. Monarchist. Any questions?)
To: Da Coyote
The funny part was he was obviously an excellent typist.
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:28:12 AM PDT
by
MrB
(Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
To: saganite
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:28:36 AM PDT
by
bintenn
To: silverleaf
Just a damn minute, admiral.
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:28:47 AM PDT
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
To: silverleaf
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:30:33 AM PDT
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
To: GunRunner
“Is it worth something to ya laddie; or should I just punch up ‘clear’”?"Not now, Madeline!"
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posted on
07/27/2009 11:31:22 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
To: saganite
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