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Engineers create transparent material with hardness comparable to tungsten metal
Study Finds ^
| March 10, 2025
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Posted on 03/10/2025 8:53:20 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Didn’t Scotty come up with this already?
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posted on
03/10/2025 8:55:02 AM PDT
by
bobcat62
To: bobcat62
His was aluminum.................
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posted on
03/10/2025 8:55:35 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: Red Badger
To: bobcat62
Didn’t Scotty come up with this already?
First thought that entered my mind as well! 😄
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posted on
03/10/2025 8:56:23 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(Ask Not What The Left is Doing. Ask What They Are Accusing YOU of Doing.)
To: Red Badger
Star Trek’s transparent aluminum.
Sapphire is aluminum oxide
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posted on
03/10/2025 8:57:20 AM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
To: bobcat62
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posted on
03/10/2025 8:58:24 AM PDT
by
gundog
(The ends justify the mean tweets. )
To: Red Badger
TRANSPARENT aluminum. and he did it on an old out of date computer with a KEYBOARD!
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posted on
03/10/2025 8:58:28 AM PDT
by
Qwapisking
("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
To: Red Badger
Wonder Woman’s transparent plane?
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posted on
03/10/2025 8:58:38 AM PDT
by
MotorCityBuck
(Keep the change, you are filthy animal! )
To: SauronOfMordor
Monty Python:
“Tungston Carbide Drill ?”
To: SauronOfMordor
Sapphire is aluminum oxide...........with trace elements that give it the blue color.
Red ones are called rubies.
Take away the other impurities and it’s clear...........
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posted on
03/10/2025 8:59:03 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: left that other site
Computer?
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posted on
03/10/2025 8:59:14 AM PDT
by
z3n
(Kakistocracy)
To: Red Badger
And we just had a transparent Aluminium post about a week ago too....Lot of cool material science stuff going on!
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posted on
03/10/2025 8:59:50 AM PDT
by
reed13k
To: Qwapisking
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posted on
03/10/2025 9:00:06 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(My goal is to lose 10 pounds this year. So far, only thirteen more to go.)
To: Red Badger
How transparent?
Be nice to have an absolutely unbreakable crystal for the display.
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posted on
03/10/2025 9:00:44 AM PDT
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Jonty30
(I have invented blackened salmon salad by baking it in the oven for too long. )
To: Red Badger
that’s not clear enough. maybe a drawing or schematic or even a diagram that we can see.
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posted on
03/10/2025 9:01:21 AM PDT
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Qwapisking
("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
To: Red Badger
This means I can live in a glass house and throw stones.
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posted on
03/10/2025 9:02:23 AM PDT
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Jonty30
(I have invented blackened salmon salad by baking it in the oven for too long. )
To: SauronOfMordor
Still too expensive, at around $10/sq inch.
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posted on
03/10/2025 9:02:56 AM PDT
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Jonty30
(I have invented blackened salmon salad by baking it in the oven for too long. )
To: Jonty30
You can throw stuff at the TV [News, sports & politics] and not break it!...............
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posted on
03/10/2025 9:04:49 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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