Transparent Aluminum
Oct. 21st, 2005 02:02 pmTime for a public service scientific annoucnement.
TRANSPARENT ALUMIN(I)UM IS HERE!
:)
"The Air Force Research Laboratory's materials and manufacturing directorate is testing aluminum oxynitride -- ALONtm -- as a replacement for the traditional multi-layered glass transparencies now used in existing ground and air armored vehicles."
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123012131
PS. It's funny, I watched startrek before being exposed to the (i) debate, so thought "aluminum (stress on u)" sounded ever so science fictiony :)
TRANSPARENT ALUMIN(I)UM IS HERE!
:)
"The Air Force Research Laboratory's materials and manufacturing directorate is testing aluminum oxynitride -- ALONtm -- as a replacement for the traditional multi-layered glass transparencies now used in existing ground and air armored vehicles."
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123012131
PS. It's funny, I watched startrek before being exposed to the (i) debate, so thought "aluminum (stress on u)" sounded ever so science fictiony :)