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Transparent Aluminium

Posted by Hemos on from the making-things-more-clear dept.

Lynx writes "As the german magazine Spiegel reports, scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies have developed a transparent tile made from aluminium oxide pellets baked at 1200C. The material is very hard, and could be used as bulletproof windows." Use the fish.

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  1. Re: Hardness and strength not the same thing. by Peyna · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    There was a comment posted awhile ago on another article that stated that the original name of the element was 'Aluminum', but in England they felt it should follow most of the other elements and end in ium, so they changed it to allow a 2nd spelling, 'Aluminium'.

    So, that would make those of us in the US at least spelling it the original way =]

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