On Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 11:38 AM Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

Also intriguing clues…there’s a one-paragraph blurb in the 30’s (I have a screen cap at home, I think) referencing a US Department of commerce report about a German company announcing they’d patented a form of ‘transparent aluminum’ to be used for windows and skylights in buildings…

Maybe the USS Enterprise dropped some during one of their forays into the past…:-)

Although I’d wager they were actually talking about extruded window frames or something mundane like that….

Probably so, as I doubt that they had a FLASH research laser . . .

https://m.phys.org/news/2009-07-transparent-aluminium-state.html

Given the highly exotic means of production, I suspect it will be a very long time until this is commercially available. :)

Richard Aiken

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