- 1. Transparent Aluminum (score: 1)
- Author: Robert Jepson <robere@xensei.com>
- Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 11:28:33 +0000
- http://www.rense.com/general20/transparentalum.htm Kinda like aluminum anodized all the way through; years ago some M.I.T. guys brought the idea of hard anodizing to my grandfather's (big) plating sh
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- 2. RE: Transparent Aluminum (score: 1)
- Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 11:18:29 -0500
- Note that this is alumina (Al2O3)-- a ceramic, not aluminum (Al) metal. Alumina is chemically related to sapphire; both are hard, strong, good electrical insulators and have decent thermal conductivi
- /html/land-speed/2002-05/msg00022.html (7,935 bytes)
- 3. RE: Transparent Aluminum (score: 1)
- Author: "Waldron, James" <James.Waldron@CWUSA.COM>
- Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 14:23:35 -0400
- But this ceramic is not going to have the malleable characteristics of metal (bend, stretch, form, weld, etc.) is it? I know that aluminum oxide is very hard (3rd only to diamond and tantalum-di-oxid
- /html/land-speed/2002-05/msg00024.html (8,798 bytes)
- 4. RE: Transparent Aluminum (score: 1)
- Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 15:52:32 -0500
- Aluminum oxide is hard and very strong but it is brittle like most ceramics. You can grind it but that's about all. The stuff is formed-to-size as "green tape" ans then vitrified in a VERY high temp
- /html/land-speed/2002-05/msg00029.html (9,938 bytes)
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