From: Michael M. Butler (butler@comp-lib.org)
Date: Sun Feb 24 2002 - 23:53:58 MST
justin corwin wrote:
>
> This small item details the apparent manufacture of small quantities
> of "tranparent aluminum"
>
> http://www.sci-fighter.com/news/newsfeb02/feb21aluminium.php3
If you read it just a *teeny* bit more carefully, you'll see that they were
talking about transparent _alumina_, not _aluminum_. A ceramic, not a metal.
Al2O3. Aluminum oxide.
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