Transparent Aluminum

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This looks like it could be an interesting new material to use in knives, imagine a folder with transparent aluminum handles.

As far as I know, no makers have considered using this stuff, but it seems very interesting to me.

Currently it is being used as a replacement for armor in vehicles:
http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123012131
 
Aluminium nitroxide is sometimes called spinel as a jewel. Not old, not new, just has not had a technical use before.

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Ha, ha, I thought someone was referring to the Star Trek movie, I think it was VII: The Journey Home. They introduced "transparent aluminum" as a material to construct a holding tank for two whales. :D

I couldn't believe this was a serious thread but after reading the article I guess I was wrong. It's amazing what new technologies are being created everyday.
 
When I saw this post I thought of Scotty (from Star Trek) speaking into the mouse of the computer. Man, that was funny! Transparent aluminum, wow. Never thought it would be possible. I'm all for it! I wonder if they'll start putting that in marine life tanks. I hear it can take Warp 10.
 
Ditto... I immediately thought of Star Trek and Scotty's transparent aluminum. I guess there are a lot of knife people who are also Star Trek people (and also gun peole, etc.).
 
heathah said:
Ha, ha, I thought someone was referring to the Star Trek movie, I think it was VII: The Journey Home. They introduced "transparent aluminum" as a material to construct a holding tank for two whales. :D

I couldn't believe this was a serious thread but after reading the article I guess I was wrong. It's amazing what new technologies are being created everyday.
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Allow me to make a minor correction to your comment. Scotty gives the head of a large manufacturing company the theoretical basis for the development of transparent aluminum in return for enough plexiglass to make a whale tank.
I thought of Star Trek too when I saw this. Too bad its not REALLY transparent aluminum, that would be cool.
Now we need some transparent S30V. Imagine how cool that would look in a knife.
 
heathah said:
But could you find your knife if you dropped it? ;)
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Sure, the same way you can find a camouflage handled SAK when you drop it in the woods! :p

The joke in the ST movie was that Scotty was giving out information to someone in his past, whose use of the information would make it available to Scotty himself in the future.

Nobody actually discovered or invented it.
 
No one actually invented it
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And it's ideas like that that have made time travel a forbidden topic with my friends...

You know, it's really kinda sad that I'm only fourteen and know exactly what you guys are talking about, and also thought about Scotty.... I need to get a life...

A transparent knife would be awesome but dangerous. And I mean truly transparent, as in no warped outlines or anything giving it away. An invisible knife.
 
I'm pretty sure Scotty made that in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home on a quaint computer. Most impressive.
 
Personally, I was thinking of armaglass from Star Wars..but hey, whatever works for you guys :D
 
It's transparent aluminum oxynitride...completely different. For example, that's like me talking about how much I enjoyed my shower in liquid hydrogen (or oxygen if you prefer) this morning.
 
Stubby said:
And it's ideas like that that have made time travel a forbidden topic with my friends...
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Think that's crazy, try on Heinlein's short story "All You Zombies" for the most bizarre temporal knot _ever_.

Alternately, the Futurama episode "Roswell That Ends Well" is a _tiny_ bit less creepy and disorienting. :D
 
Grover_Cephas said:
Think that's crazy, try on Heinlein's short story "All You Zombies" for the most bizarre temporal knot _ever_.

Alternately, the Futurama episode "Roswell That Ends Well" is a _tiny_ bit less creepy and disorienting. :D
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Great short story! I'm a major Heinlein fan, so...
 
felder said:
It's transparent aluminum oxynitride...completely different. For example, that's like me talking about how much I enjoyed my shower in liquid hydrogen (or oxygen if you prefer) this morning.
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Dihydrogen Monoxide actually.... very bad stuff...read all about it before you decide to shower in it again: http://www.dhmo.org/ :eek:
 
Just say no to DHMO! :rolleyes: :barf:



I remember when a grapenut eating acquaintance sent me that link a couple of years ago...needless to say, it was an interesting conversation or education if you will. :D
 
Chris Mapp said:
Personally, I was thinking of armaglass from Star Wars..but hey, whatever works for you guys :D
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The Star Wars material is commonly referred to as "transparisteel" in the licensed literature. Its used to make starship windows and it sounds like something you could make a knife out of, seeing as there are so many scenes in the books where a transparisteel panel is blown up sending lethal razor sharp fragments flying everywhere.
 
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