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Transparent Aluminum Is "New State of Matter"

Posted by timothy on from the baseball-bats-will-never-be-the-same dept.

Professor_Quail writes with this interesting excerpt: "Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminum by bombarding the metal with the world's most powerful soft X-ray laser. 'Transparent aluminum' previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion."

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  1. Re:"Tansparent" by KDR_11k · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now with green diode lasers we will eventually have TVs using lasers to draw our images.

    Or at least a Virtual Boy with a color display.

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