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Strong, Tough, and Now Cheap: Caltech Researchers Have New Way to Process Metallic Glass
California Institute of Technology ^ | May 12, 2011 | Marcus Woo

Posted on 05/12/2011 4:45:53 PM PDT by decimon

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1 posted on 05/12/2011 4:45:55 PM PDT by decimon
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To: SunkenCiv; neverdem

Ping


2 posted on 05/12/2011 4:46:45 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

Hadn’t-ya evah heard of Transparent Aluminum?
/end Scotty


3 posted on 05/12/2011 4:47:55 PM PDT by BreitbartSentMe (ATLAS SHRUGGED was supposed to be a warning, NOT a newspaper.)
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To: decimon

Interesting stuff!


4 posted on 05/12/2011 4:50:34 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Bush_Democrat

“Hello, computer.”


5 posted on 05/12/2011 4:54:41 PM PDT by Stat-boy
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Use the keyboard??? How quaint!


6 posted on 05/12/2011 4:55:19 PM PDT by BreitbartSentMe (ATLAS SHRUGGED was supposed to be a warning, NOT a newspaper.)
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To: decimon

Shoot. I was hoping for transparent metals so I could have a greenhouse that wouldn’t be affected by ultraviolet light and be extrremely strong. These things aren’t transparent.


7 posted on 05/12/2011 4:55:50 PM PDT by RadiationRomeo (Step into my mind and glimpse the madness that is me)
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To: decimon
Bicycles.
8 posted on 05/12/2011 4:57:38 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Bush_Democrat

http://www.rense.com/general20/transparentalum.htm

Transparent Alumina -
Three Times Stronger Than Steel


9 posted on 05/12/2011 4:57:56 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: decimon

Aye.

10 posted on 05/12/2011 5:05:32 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: Free Vulcan

I'll drink to that. Or to anything.

11 posted on 05/12/2011 5:09:08 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

WOW! Seriously. Just. WOW!


12 posted on 05/12/2011 5:12:44 PM PDT by DariusBane (People are like sheep and have two speeds: grazing and stampede)
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To: Bush_Democrat

“You realize that if we give him the formula, we’ll be altering the future...”

“Why? How do we know he didn’t invent the thing?”


13 posted on 05/12/2011 5:16:24 PM PDT by TheRobb7 (BLAMING BUSH NEVER FED A HUNGRY CHILD.)
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To: decimon

Makes you wonder about potential applications, depending on cost effectiveness in replacing plastics:

1. Automobile body
2. Doors, interior and/or exterior
3. Other housing construction materials for, say, walls and floors.
4. Guns
5. Countertops
6. Bars and tables
7. etc.


14 posted on 05/12/2011 5:22:48 PM PDT by Let_It_Be_So
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Hadn’t-ya evah heard of Transparent Aluminum?

I had some but now I can't find it!!!

15 posted on 05/12/2011 5:54:45 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: decimon

Wonder Woman’s plane was made out of transparent metallic glass several decades ahead of this.

Just like Dick Tracy’s wrist radio foreshadowed the small cell phones we use today.

And you don’t even want to go to the old Buck Rogers stuff.

Cartoons Rule!


16 posted on 05/12/2011 8:07:52 PM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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Thanks decimon. At least some of the metallic glasses also have lower resistance than their parent metals.

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17 posted on 05/12/2011 9:06:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: SunkenCiv
At least some of the metallic glasses also have lower resistance than their parent metals.

Didn't we all?

18 posted on 05/12/2011 9:16:18 PM PDT by decimon
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Beating Crystallization in Glass-Forming Metals by Millisecond Heating and Processing
19 posted on 05/13/2011 3:09:40 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: neverdem

Thanks for the ping, Neverdem.


20 posted on 05/13/2011 4:47:28 PM PDT by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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