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2009-07-28 Science & Technology

Transparent aluminium is 'new state of matter'

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Posted by 3dc 2009-07-28 15:13|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 If the name on the patent application is "Montgomery Scott," I don't want to know about it.

Posted by Mike 2009-07-28 16:17|| 2009-07-28 16:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Is it any wonder that "Science Fiction Overtaken by Events" is a major article in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction?

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-07-28 16:17|| 2009-07-28 16:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Great. Now they can wear invisible tin foil hats.

Posted by tu3031 2009-07-28 16:19|| 2009-07-28 16:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Dang, tu. That's a good idea.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-07-28 16:34|| 2009-07-28 16:34|| Front Page Top

#5 This turned the aluminium nearly invisible to extreme ultraviolet radiation.

Can someone help me here, does that mean its invisible to chickens?

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-07-28 16:53|| 2009-07-28 16:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Cancel last, need a nap.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-07-28 16:56|| 2009-07-28 16:56|| Front Page Top

#7 My favorite line from that movie...

"How do we know _he_ didn't invent the stuff?"

"Yeah...."

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-07-28 17:37|| 2009-07-28 17:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Aluminum will stretch not shatter, but can be scratched easier than glss, Don't look for aluminum windshields anytime soon.

And reading closely, it's only Invisible to infrared.

Much work still to be done.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-07-28 17:40|| 2009-07-28 17:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Science Daily article, in some detail. Sounds like the effect was infinitesimally short, and the new state of matter was that they temporarily knocked some of the electrons out of the aluminum matrix. Funky, but very brief.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-07-28 18:01|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-07-28 18:01|| Front Page Top

#10 captian there be whales

Posted by Dan 2009-07-28 19:35|| 2009-07-28 19:35|| Front Page Top

#11 And reading closely, it's only Invisible to infrared.

Extreme ultra-violet. So, not so useful for making whale tanks, or windshields either.

Great graphic, though.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2009-07-28 19:45|| 2009-07-28 19:45|| Front Page Top

#12 how does it look with a blacklight and a big blunt of chronic?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-07-28 19:47|| 2009-07-28 19:47|| Front Page Top

#13 So:

We knocked a core electron from a lot (not one) of aluminium (aluninum)-atoms with a laser.

Practical implications aside, that's pretty cool.

Posted by 0 2009-07-28 19:48|| 2009-07-28 19:48|| Front Page Top

#14 Great. So now we can produce depleted aluminum.

Posted by Skunky Glins 5***">Skunky Glins 5*** 2009-07-28 22:53|| 2009-07-28 22:53|| Front Page Top

#15 femtoseconds, and only transparent to UV.

Meh.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-07-28 22:57|| 2009-07-28 22:57|| Front Page Top

#16 It disappears completely - if your visual range is in the hard ultraviolet.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2009-07-28 23:37|| 2009-07-28 23:37|| Front Page Top

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