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Transparent Spinel aluminum for transparent armor, next generation lasers, ruggedized smart phones and tablets

[Bud Brewster]

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Yes, there is a video about a nifty little way to making regular aluminum transparent right in your own home, and it starts out with a clip from Star Trek: The Voyage Home, showing Scotty and Bones talking to an amazed 20th century industrialist about a new and amazing futuristic material — transparent aluminum.


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However, the video below is about the actual material shown above, called transparent Spinel aluminum, and it too mentions Star Trek prominently. This stuff is not only transparent, it's said to be "far better than bulletproof glass."

Welcome to the future, boys and girls.


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* In 1982 when I wrote Sail the Sea of Stars, the unpublished sequel to The Wishbone Express, I described the material the star ships were made of as crystalsteel.
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