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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.

3 of 276 comments (clear)

  1. Spiegel? by kin_korn_karn · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I thought they just made clothes for wannabe-yuppie women and fine accessories. Didn't know they were in the materials business :)

  2. Germany? by rnturn · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I thought Scotty gave the process for transparent aluminum to a Bay Area company.

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  3. Here's the translation by wpmegee · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Here's the translation for those of you too lazy to put the URL into Babelfish:

    Dresdner researchers developed transparent and extremely hard page frames. By the material, from which visors can firingfixed be manufactured, also the pentagon is fascinated.

    A 10 times 10 centimeters large disk (strength: only about 400 gram weigh, are however three times harder 1.0 cm as hardened steel. With firing tests under contract of the German Federal Armed Forces from the Bundeswehr in Koblenz " outstanding results " were obtained, report the researcher Andreas Krell.

    Also in the US state Idaho were examined the tiles: The pentagon is fascinated of the transparency of the material, with which firingfixed of visors or large windows of armored reconnaissance vehicles can be built.