Nichols of the san francisco based plexicorp acquired.
Transparent aluminium sheet.
In the popular media and in the star trek community it is commonly referred to as transparent aluminum.
Aluminium oxynitride or alon is a ceramic composed of aluminium oxygen and nitrogen it is marketed under the name alon by surmet corporation.
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But the stuff we re calling transparent aluminum is just as fascinating and just as sci fi as it sounds.
Diamond tred aluminum sheet heavy weight model 57575 13 49 13 49.
Transparent aluminum starts out as a pile of white aluminum oxynitride powder.
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A wide variety of transparent aluminum options are available to you such as is alloy non alloy.
A one inch thick sheet of transparent aluminum measuring sixty feet by ten feet was capable of withstanding the pressure of 18 000 cubic feet of water which could be used in place of a six inch thick sheet of plexiglass.
What was once used in the science fiction star trek movies see through aluminum is now something that through test mixing with rubies sapphires.
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Lincane aluminum sheet weathered gray model 57565 62 98 62 98.
Transparent aluminum was a construction material far stronger and much lighter than its predecessor plexiglass.
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So sorry scotty there s no such thing as transparent aluminum metal.
That powder gets packed into a rubber mold in the rough shape of the desired part and subjected to a procedure called isostatic pressing in which the mold is compressed in a tank of hydraulic fluid to 15 000 psi which mashes the alon into a grainy green body the grainy structure is then fused together by.
Alon transparent aluminum is a ceramic composed of aluminium oxygen and nitrogen.
Surmet is the only company globally that manufactures alon.
Real glass like see through metal.
Alon or aluminum oxynitride is an amazing and unique transparent advanced ceramic that is polycrystalline made from powder with a cubic spinel crystal structure.
Stronger than glass various military and commercial applications for this remarkable material are already being tested.
Alon is optically transparent 80 in the near ultraviolet visible and midwave infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.