 Translucent Metal
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Bored Chemist
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Registered Member #193
Joined: Fri Feb 17 2006, 07:04AM
Location: sheffield
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PresentTeck wrote ... It's not so much the thickness as the molecular structure that makes it transparent. glass is made primarily from quarts sand (powder) witch is a white powder, you fire it correctly and it becomes transparent due to the chemical change at that temperature. but you already know that... what you didn't know is that if you do the same with aluminum powder it will be transparent too. it's mixed with a few other things (oxygen and nitrogen I believe) witch technically makes it a ceramic, but it's a lot of really strong aluminum thats transparent so close enough. What it is:  specs from the company: The process:
Wrong in every major respect.
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Conundrum
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Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
Location: CI, Earth
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Metal with embedded optical fibres maybe?
IIRC this was done with concrete a while back so its only a matter of time before someone devises a way to make this work.
PM me for the secret sauce 
-A
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