Transparent aluminum: Tiny acid droplets turn metal into glass-like material
Transparent aluminum: Tiny acid droplets turn metal into glass-like material
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Transparent aluminum: Tiny acid droplets turn metal into glass-like material
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Okay, now make large sheets of the stuff because we need to transport whales... Somewhere.
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Err I'm a whale who's totally cool with you taking me off this planet if that's where you happened to be going, not that that's what I'm saying or anything.
Um whale sounds
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That’s just (synthetic) sapphire, right?
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Aluminimum Oxide sure is and it can be make clear, I don't know why they added the T or x connotation This article appears to be more on a new method of creating that directly out of Al. That said, "electrowetting" is the name of my new rock band, or is it the name of your sex tape?
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That's the ticket, laddie.
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NileRed here we come
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That video is going to be awesome a year from now
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Oh yeah. At least it'll be 5 hours long
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That’s the ticket, laddie.
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Scotty was right
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Just don't hand him a mouse (at least not without a demonstration of how to use it).
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How quaint.
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I mean... yes, of course he was.
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I love science. The last time they were trying to figure out how to make a strong and moldable "glass" they accidentally discovered super glue.
If they can really make aluminum completely clear the applications for such a thing would be pretty wide.
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So we get a gem fused to aluminium. Cool
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TRANSMUTATION
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So invisible jets (with wondrous pilots) when?
(Or do we just wait for pollution to turn the rain acidic like this?)
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How do we know he didn't invent the bloody thing?