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TRANSPARENT ALUMINUM - CLEAR METAL?!
Youtube ^ | 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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To: goldendelicious

Nice images of the ISS cupola. After all these years it will be interesting to see if it can be replaced and what the procedure will be. Last time they redeployed a segment of the ISS was moving the port solar array from the Z1 truss to the P3 truss. You might say they got a few kinks along the way.

The NappyOne


21 posted on 02/21/2018 9:18:54 PM PST by NappyOne
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To: SpaceBar

and I suspect you don’t consider cubic zirconium -“true” diamond, naysayer


22 posted on 02/21/2018 9:23:58 PM PST by goldendelicious
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To: goldendelicious

Welcome to Free Republic


23 posted on 02/21/2018 9:24:44 PM PST by easternsky
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To: SpaceBar

Metals are made out of minerals.


24 posted on 02/21/2018 9:47:17 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: goldendelicious

Sounds like it would be good to use in smart phones.


25 posted on 02/21/2018 9:49:37 PM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: Nateman
Looks like someone has already thought of using this material in smart phones
26 posted on 02/21/2018 9:56:54 PM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: SunkenCiv

#17. Scotty- “Do you want to be rich beyond your wildest dreams?”

“Transparent aluminum” - guaranteed TWO WHALES STRONG.

What a great movie and Katherine Hicks wasn’t bad either.


27 posted on 02/21/2018 10:22:06 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Nateman

Well, I guess that’s where you get the advertising slogan, “I can hear you clearly now”.

Johnny Nash foresaw this development in his song “I can see clearly now” back in 1972. Should have been the movie “Star Trek: The Journey Home” theme song.


28 posted on 02/21/2018 10:24:45 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: goldendelicious

Has Dr. Nichols cashed in on in his find, yet ?


29 posted on 02/21/2018 10:26:39 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: fieldmarshaldj

not now, Madilyn!


30 posted on 02/21/2018 10:30:02 PM PST by goldendelicious
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
It managed to be entertaining and amusing, still fit the Star Trek arc of the time, and the environutso agenda wasn't distracting. They could easily have stopped making Original Cast movies after that, AFAIC. "LDS?"

31 posted on 02/21/2018 10:32:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: NappyOne

Aluminium oxynitride

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride


32 posted on 02/21/2018 10:44:12 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: goldendelicious

Actually, this has been around for several years. Good stuff.


33 posted on 02/22/2018 12:03:22 AM PST by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: goldendelicious

Cool for canning


34 posted on 02/22/2018 12:14:49 AM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: goldendelicious

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha...


35 posted on 02/22/2018 1:49:09 AM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: Army Air Corps; big'ol_freeper; Impy; SevenofNine; Cletus.D.Yokel; Rummyfan; Liberty Valance; ...
Re: TRANSPARENT ALUMINUM

BFD.. AAC--

I've always been able to go transparent... any time I want.

I just love it when Bendy... goes all clear!

36 posted on 02/22/2018 2:43:41 AM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: SpaceBar
Nevertheless, this ceramic will always be referred to as "Transparent Aluminum" as a nod to Scottie and Star Trek.

Yay!

37 posted on 02/22/2018 4:46:04 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (There are far too many Sh*thole-Americans! Especially in government.)
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To: hoagy62

This was a gift to us from The Aliens. The same ones that gave us Velcro. Be sure to thank them next time you put on your shoes.


38 posted on 02/22/2018 5:07:10 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: SMGFan

You beat me to it. Cue Scotty: “How do we know he didn’t invent the stuff?”


39 posted on 02/22/2018 5:12:56 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Progressivism is socialism. Venezuela is how it ends.)
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To: SunkenCiv
· String Theory Ping List ·


40 posted on 02/22/2018 8:30:22 AM PST by Albion Wilde (Winning isn't as easy as I make it look. -- Donald J. Trump)
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