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Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones
An anonymous reader writes "Corning introduced next-generation Gorilla Glass, which it said is ten times tougher than any competitive cover glass now in the market. The company says that the Gorilla Glass 4 so launched is to address the No.1 problem among the smartphones users- screen breakage due to everyday drops."
One is in base 10, the other in base 2.
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Please tell us how they achieved this feat or materials engineering.
Oh you silly slashdotter. Sure, you may have studied materials science and engineering, but do you have the real world experience? In the modern corporation it's all about teamwork. Well-managed teams can do more than any one person possibly could. In this case, the engineers make the glass hard. Then marketing adds the flexibility. See? Teamwork. Oh yeah, and management makes it all happen and does extra janatorial tasks like mopping up the excess bucks.
(Actually, cynicism aside, it's simply that hardness and flexibility are orthogonal axes in materials science).
Not only that but what's "tougher"? Elastic Modulus? Ductility? Fatigue Limit? Tensile Strength?
News for nerds, remember? Ten is simply the base-2 representation of the same number that two represents in base-10. It's exactly the same statement.
Toughness is a perfectly good engineering term with a defined meaning. Look it up. Wikipedia is a decent start. "In materials science and metallurgy, toughness is the ability of a material to absorb energy and plastically deform without fracturing."
It's typically measured by an impact test.
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