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TRANSPARENT ALUMINUM - CLEAR METAL?!
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| 7-24-2017
| Tiffany Loverd
Posted on 02/21/2018 8:01:36 PM PST by goldendelicious
Aluminium oxynitride or AlON is a ceramic composed of aluminium, oxygen and nitrogen. It is marketed under the name ALON by Surmet Corporation. AlON is optically transparent (≥80%) in the near-ultraviolet, visible and midwave-infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is 4 times harder than fused silica glass, 85% as hard as sapphire, and nearly 15% harder than magnesium aluminate spinel. Since it has a cubic spinel structure, it can be fabricated to transparent windows, plates, domes, rods, tubes and other forms using conventional ceramic powder processing techniques. ALON is the hardest polycrystalline transparent ceramic available commercially. Combination of optical and mechanical properties makes this material a leading candidate for lightweight high-performance transparent armor applications such as bulletproof and blast-resistant windows and for many military infrared optics. AlON-based armor has been shown to stop multiple armor-piercing projectiles of up to 50 cal. It is commercially available in sizes as big as 18x35-inch monolithic windows.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Education; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: aluminium; aluminiumoxynitride; nitrogen; oxygen; paragraphsplease; space; stringtheory; technology; transparentaluminum
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Aluminium oxynitride or AlON is a ceramic composed of aluminium, oxygen and nitrogen. It is marketed under the name ALON by Surmet Corporation. AlON is optically transparent (≥80%) in the near-ultraviolet, visible and midwave-infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. It is 4 times harder than fused silica glass, 85% as hard as sapphire, and nearly 15% harder than magnesium aluminate spinel. Since it has a cubic spinel structure, it can be fabricated to transparent windows, plates, domes, rods, tubes and other forms using conventional ceramic powder processing techniques. ALON is the hardest polycrystalline transparent ceramic available commercially. Combination of optical and mechanical properties makes this material a leading candidate for lightweight high-performance transparent armor applications such as bulletproof and blast-resistant windows and for many military infrared optics. AlON-based armor has been shown to stop multiple armor-piercing projectiles of up to 50 cal. It is commercially available in sizes as big as 18x35-inch monolithic windows. ALON can be fabricated as windows, plates, domes, rods, tubes and other forms using conventional ceramic powder processing techniques. Its composition can vary slightly: the aluminium content from about 30% to 36%, which has been reported to affect the bulk and shear moduli by only 12%.) The fabricated greenware is subjected to heat treatment (densification) at elevated temperatures followed by grinding and polishing to transparency. It can withstand temperatures of about 2100 °C in inert atmospheres. The grinding and polishing substantially improves the impact resistance and other mechanical properties of armor.
To: goldendelicious
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posted on
02/21/2018 8:06:38 PM PST
by
SMGFan
(Sarah Michelle Gellar is on twitter @SarahMGellar)
To: goldendelicious
I love this article and post but it is paragraph challenged. :-).
To: plain talk
I'll do one better--- Harry Mudd's rap sheet:Boom.
To: goldendelicious
Yes, I remember when Steve Jobs invented it ;-)
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02/21/2018 8:15:34 PM PST
by
House Atreides
(BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
To: House Atreides
I’m pretty sure it was stolen from Wakanda
To: goldendelicious
Well that certainly changes everything. I’m on board now.
To: KC_Lion
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posted on
02/21/2018 8:19:21 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: plain talk
We don’t use paragraphs in the future
To: Bender2
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posted on
02/21/2018 8:25:31 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: goldendelicious
To: goldendelicious
I wonder if they can use this stuff in spacecraft windows.
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posted on
02/21/2018 8:31:25 PM PST
by
hoagy62
(America Supreme!)
To: goldendelicious
The Wakandans neglected to patent it.
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posted on
02/21/2018 8:32:51 PM PST
by
House Atreides
(BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
To: goldendelicious
Can it be used to make the domes for Mars colonies?
To: Mr. Blond
It can but unfortunately the Xhosa clicking will crack it.
To: goldendelicious
Aluminum oxide aka sapphire is transparent. A transparent compound with a metallic cation does not constitute a ‘transparent metal’.
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posted on
02/21/2018 9:00:44 PM PST
by
SpaceBar
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posted on
02/21/2018 9:02:03 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: goldendelicious
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posted on
02/21/2018 9:07:06 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: goldendelicious
I wonder when it will be available for cars and motorcycle windshields. Soon I hope and at a price that doesn’t break the bank.
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posted on
02/21/2018 9:15:05 PM PST
by
Boomer
(Leftism is a Mental Cancer on Society! Pray for a cure for the diseased and damaged left!)
To: SpaceBar
Yes, but this is still pretty cool
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posted on
02/21/2018 9:16:23 PM PST
by
volunbeer
(Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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