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To: Pearls Before Swine

We have transparent aluminum now.

It’s an oxide - basically artificial sapphire.

It’s also phenomenally expensive to set up a manufacturing plant for it and so far it’s only been used to protect optics on satellites and in military applications.


11 posted on 09/24/2017 6:15:57 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: MrEdd

“It’s an oxide.”

You linked in an oxygen atom.

I see what you did there.


12 posted on 09/24/2017 6:17:30 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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