Transparent aluminium

[broberfett]

I just saw this story. Supposedly transparent aluminium:
http://www.physorg.com/news167925273.html

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Yeh we've kinda already had this thread and it's still on the first page of the this here Sci Tech forum and is pretty clearly marked in it's title as being about the creation of transparent Aluminium.

LINK

 

[RobertVA]

Posted 10/17/2005 Updated 10/17/2005
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123012131

Air Force testing new transparent armor

"...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. ..."

 

[Itisnotlogical]

damn, that's pretty extraordinary...