If we're going to play fast and loose with what aluminum is, sapphires are an example of transparent aluminum. Would have been helpful to compare synthetic sapphire with alon.
@@mzt_amds You seem to be very knowledgeable on this, would be great if you wrote an article or made a video explaining these concepts to people who lack knowledge.
yes as sapphires , are sort os natural ready made just need digging up as it were? and as making diamonds in a lab is thing now, actually useful stuff, must following soon?
Synthetic sapphire is extremely hard and scratch resistant although it’s more brittle than ALON so less able to distribute and absorb energy fromimpact. Agree, would love to see the comparison
ALON contains aluminum íons, but it is not Aluminum (which is the metal that all of us know). Metallic aluminum never becomes transparent to visible light. Sapphire also contains aluminum íons, forming Al2O3 and is transparent to visible light, but again it is not transparent Aluminum.
No comprendo por qué lo comparan con el aluminio si su desindad es tan diferente. Has los cálculos de la diferencia ALON= 3696 kg/m³, ALUMINIO = 2.70 g/cm3
@@roxasparks I apologize, I read about it in a NASA Tech Briefs from their Materials Science Team. The sintering of nano-grains was what made it transparent. The Grain structure was small enough to allow the transmission of wavelength of visible light so it was a transparent ceramic. The only articles I can find (jeez Google has become a complete mess for searching), only talk about using sintered nanograin titania as a coating for machining tool surfaces because of its incredible strength and resistance to wear and corrosion. I'll keep looking to see if I can find the original NASA Tech Brief.
I once looked in to the viability of Alon for a high volume consumer electronics product. Even with the manufacturing scaled to produce large quantities, the cost would been about 100x what I needed.
Scotty : I noticed you're still working with polymers. Dr. Nichols : Still? What else would I be working with? Scotty : Aye, what else, indeed? I'll put it another way. How thick would a piece of your Plexiglass need to be, at 60 feet by 10 feet, to withstand the pressure of 18,000 cubic feet of water? Dr. Nichols : Oh, that's easy. Six inches. We carry stuff that big in stock. Scotty : I, uh, noticed. Now suppose, just suppose, I were to show you a way to manufacture a wall that would do the same job, but be only one inch thick. Would that be worth something to you, eh?
The writers were probably just referencing Corundum which is Aluminum Oxide when they wrote that scene. ALON is aparently 85% as strong as Corundum. In either case the real secret would have been the manufacturing process to rapidly produce the enormouse slabs that were used not the chemistry. Also if Scotty had been a better engineer he would have just purchased off the shelf rubber sealant spray and made the whole deck a watertight space and omitted the viewing windows because its not an aquarium.
It's been a while since I've seen Star Trek IV, but if I'm remembering it correctly there was some narrative mumbo-jumbo about the actual structure of the ship needing to be reinforced to carry the mass of all the water. If they had reinforced it with plain old high-strength steel and rubber sealant then they would have no excuse for cool cinematic shots of the crew observing whales in tanks aboard a spaceship.
@@bartolomeothesatyr No, the comment about the mass of the water was in relation to the amount of weight that would need to be beamed up. Also, Scotty didn't use transparent aluminum to build the "aquarium", he gave Dr Nichols the formula for it as payment for sheets of Plexiglass.
@@ku8721 Perhaps the invention of the "Verneuil method" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verneuil_method to create artificial gemstones in the AlON family (eg: sapphire and ruby) in 1883 should be considered the origin year?
@@dj1NM3 Honestly and fully technically YES!!! But the actual ALON material wasn't discovered (honestly from playing RPG games personally feel it was more "unlocked") until 1974 so I feel more than comfortable saying this material only actually predated the movie by 12 years. STILL REAL SCIENCE FOR THE W!!!
Actually, real life inspired the Trek reference, as Alon existed well prior to the movies ever being conceived, much less written. If you look at the chemical structure on the computer screen it actually shows Alon (or as close as they could achieve without pushing open the cloak of secrecy). Heck, I carried a device with Alon lenses to the Persian Gulf in 1989 - a laser range finder. Due to its properties it protected the laser emitter without hampering the beam.
100 years ago the majority of lower class car owners were forced to sit on seats wrapped in leather while the rich upper class had the luxury of seats wrapped in fabric because the cost to produce high-stress fabric was so much higher than the cost of leather. Theres that similar tale of lobsters being poor people food back in the day but its become convoluted over the years.
Transparent aluminum was described in an article called 'Man Made Rubbies' by O. Ivan Lee as a one of the steps in creating artificial rubies. According to the article, the technique of producing this material was well established and nothing new. And that, ladies and gentlemen, was in 'Science and Invention' magazine from August 1920 !!!
When I first heard about transparent aluminum, it almost sounded like magic to me, almost hard to believe. But if you think about it, many minerals are transparent. It's really not that extraordinary, but it's still very cool!
So, you're saying we're 1 step closer as a species to being able to go back in time by flying around the sun really really fast to get to 1980's San Fransisco in a stolen Klingon Warbird to capture a whale from Seaworld by beaming it aboard into a cargo hold made of... transparent aluminum? Yay?
@@richarda996 hey, with all that talk about spaceships and stuff, it was time to save the whales! (it was the 80's, I give 'em a break LOL plus: noo-klee-ah wessles)
@@RJSRdg So, you're saying we're 1 step closer as a species to being able to go back in time by flying around the sun really really fast to get to 1980's San Fransisco in a stolen Klingon Warbird to capture a whale from Seaworld by beaming it aboard into a cargo hold made of... perspex? Yay?
In the Star Trek movie it was made of Hydrogen, Silver and Aluminum. They got it all wrong even tho it was already a thing back then. Probably because the real ingredients were already patented
1st to come up with the method at a reasonable cost will own everything to do with phone screens front end back And that's enough incentive for some Cellphone companies or glass companies have the perfect product The 1st company to come up with unbreakable cell phone glass and camera glass will be gods in the industry
Companies don't want to sell you one phone for a lifetime. They want to sell same product over and over again. So breakable glass heavily increases phone sales. I get new phone every 12-24 months usually when its glass breaks.
My cousin was the main mechanic on the Blackbird just before it was decommissioned. Once it got mothballed, he told me used for many parts of the plane. He said there were also things he still couldn't tell me because they won't be public knowledge for a few decades yet. That was in the 90s, and he's been retired for 18 years now. That stuff he didn't mention STILL isn't public.
Always thought that was a dumb moment in the film. Just because there are fish in it, it doesn't have to be see thru. They could have made the holding tank with regular aluminum walls. Or just plain steel for all of that.
Actually Star Trek used many new and little known cutting edge scientific "facts" in the show, including transparent aluminum and warp drives that are based on real science.
I always thought they were just in a time crunch and were looking for pieces big enough to fit where they needed it with minimal need to cut and shape things.
@@primoroy While I appreciate you put facts in quotes to designate it, I kind of feel that you should have added another for "real science". Any science that says you can move faster than light, is still theoretical science and nothing more.
If you're gonna nitpick Star Trek IV for making a whale tank out of transparent aluminum, I'mma have to nitpick your referring to whales as "fish". They are mammals.
@@bartolomeothesatyr ah but you see in a society so arrogant as to not only claim there is a god, that demands worship, that created the whole universe, they also claim the god made man in his image, tends to demean all other life in that we are special! When the facts show the whales are far more than man can figure out specifically? Like the amount of information holding capability, in the songs they sing dwarfs human speech! So obviously more important as a life form that would not destroy the Earth as man is doing so actually is probably much closer in appearance to god than man, so of course he unknowingly, not meaning to but naturally refers to the superior life form as a mere fish! Is absolutely the brainwashing of the most murderous industry of petroleum scum!
It's a stretch to call an aluminum compound aluminum. Actually it has more oxygen and nitrogen in it than aluminum. It's a ceramic. Are zircons transparent zirconium?
I recently saw an interview of Bob lazar from years ago talking about what he saw inside that craft he says he worked on area 51, on Joe Rogan podcast. He mentioned a transparent wall and Joe Rogan asked if that was something new and Bob lazar said "no, we already have this type of transparent material". Which makes me think that part of unidentified aerial phenomena are human made.
Does anyone have the tension strength ratings? How brittle is it, can it be impacted and keep clarity, for example blows from a hammer, what will that do to the surface and the transparency(?). I was curious what else this could practically be used for(current powder compression type)... possibly other fabrication methods than powder compression will expand that (TBD)
I'm guessing it's more of a ceramic than a metal, so no plastic deformation but catastrophic failure and probably in compression it's stronger than in tension.
Blows from a hammer won’t do jack shit if a 50 cal rifle round can’t go through 1.5 inches of it. Also it’s very brittle but to break it you’d need a force like that of a tank round. No joke This is why NASA uses it for its space shuttle, because this thing is stronger than cast iron. It’s closer to Tungsten in brittleness and we know Tungsten is hella tough
I saw a video of Cody's Lab, I think? Or some other youtuber "science guy". He stripped the print off the outside and dissolved the plastic coating on the inside, then he put a flame to it for a few seconds and the aluminum became semi-transparent. To the eye nothing seemed to have changed, but you could shine a light through it.
It's a ceramic, like those used in body armour - but Aluminium Oxide ceramics are not as tough as those used for armour The main advantage it has is it is transparent ... but it only has niche uses as it's much more expensive than the non-transparent forms, and other cheaper materials are transparent and good enough, and so it's is only used where needed
They also successfully made transparent tungsten based nano composites for radiation shielding and transparent solar cells partially made out of tungsten. I imagine such materials would be very useful for bulletproof glass on military vehicles!
ALON has nitrogen in it. It is more transparent at wavelengths longer than 5500nm. It isn't quite as hard as sapphire. It is lighter. It is far more expensive to make.
startrek? I could find a hundred uses here on earth houses cars industrial glass construction and farming equipment and if it conducted current it could replace cellphone touch screens
Us Brits are so silly to pronounce every vowel of Al u min I um, instead of the easier way American's say it. Then we have so many confusing homonyms & homophones, but at least we don't assign gender to objects (with the exception of ships cars & planes)
Mostly because the original and CORRECT spelling of Aluminum does not have the superfluous i at the end to make it "ium", and the man who discovered/isolated it named it Aluminum and was accepted by the international community as Aluminum. It is only in years since that the wrong pronunciation has been created erroneously by the British so that it will sound like other "ium" elements.
@@ronblack7870 I believe 'ium suffix was added back to represent its properties of belonging to the alkai metal family (sodium, potassium etc.). But as usual I'm probably wrong..
Because those sunglasses would cost over $25,000. Just to give you an idea of how expensive this is. There’s a company out in Mexico that makes armored vehicles for the wealthy and they tend to charge $175,000 to $300,000 to armor a whole SUV depending on the level of protection but that’s the most expensive one so far. With this material you are looking at around $12 million dollars to armor the whole vehicle and you’d get a level 7 protection. The problem is that this company in Mexico doesn’t have the money to invest in this material to get it massed produced since customers ain’t paying that much for it anyways. Just to produce about 1,000 pounds and that’s what’s needed to armor the whole SUV depending on preference of this material so you’ll be looking at the cost to be around $10 million dollars for the production of that alone 😂 The company did get some orders to produce some vehicles with this material, but the people who invented this product don’t have the machines to do this product on orders yet let alone mass produce it. To give you an idea of mass production for this would be around $3 billion dollars just to get all the approval notices done, machines calibrated and ready to go and factories employing over 300,000 employees to start with and if you could get it going somehow after legal challenges etc for about 5 years you’d be making close to $70 billion dollars in just 5 years. In 10 years it would become cheaper so yes you’d make only $50 billion dollars but the market would be there already. In 20 years if a guy like Elon Musk ran this business and massed produced the business alone would be worth $400 billion dollars with military contracts, NASA contracts, private buyers to the biggest market yet the public sector all over the place drooling over this product.
Wish this tech would be kept out of military hands. Reason is that once something is made that the military can use to say perhaps defend themselves with then other militaries start making stuff more powerful to destroy it. Even worse some or many militaries might even use it to start conflicts as well. Sad that these ways of thinking about tech will never end until the world is completely destroyed by tech.
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If we're going to play fast and loose with what aluminum is, sapphires are an example of transparent aluminum. Would have been helpful to compare synthetic sapphire with alon.
@MZT In context he meant laminating.
@@mzt_amds You seem to be very knowledgeable on this, would be great if you wrote an article or made a video explaining these concepts to people who lack knowledge.
yes as sapphires , are sort os natural ready made just need digging up as it were? and as making diamonds in a lab is thing now, actually useful stuff, must following soon?
Synthetic sapphire is extremely hard and scratch resistant although it’s more brittle than ALON so less able to distribute and absorb energy fromimpact. Agree, would love to see the comparison
Or hoomans with rocks... Or Karl Marx with modern globalism...
Imagine making an engine block with this seeing. The oil flowing the coolant and everything moving
That would be really cool. ALON seems very durable so no problem there
Yeah I immediately thought of a see through tank given we are in the midst of the Ukraine War!
That's already a thing
Yeah i agree
@@BearerOfLightSonOfGod, has transparent engine block already been made out of this material?
ALON contains aluminum íons, but it is not Aluminum (which is the metal that all of us know). Metallic aluminum never becomes transparent to visible light. Sapphire also contains aluminum íons, forming Al2O3 and is transparent to visible light, but again it is not transparent Aluminum.
No comprendo por qué lo comparan con el aluminio si su desindad es tan diferente. Has los cálculos de la diferencia ALON= 3696 kg/m³,
ALUMINIO = 2.70 g/cm3
@@teuton1163 ALON es más denso, pero es más fuerte?
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@@teuton1163 correcting your units you get 3.696g/cm^3
So it’s 50% more dense not thousands of times more dense….
There is a sintered analog to Alon made of Titanium... It is also transparent, light as Aluminum, stronger than steel, and as flexible as plastic.
I need links and references
@@roxasparks
I apologize, I read about it in a NASA Tech Briefs from their Materials Science Team. The sintering of nano-grains was what made it transparent. The Grain structure was small enough to allow the transmission of wavelength of visible light so it was a transparent ceramic.
The only articles I can find (jeez Google has become a complete mess for searching), only talk about using sintered nanograin titania as a coating for machining tool surfaces because of its incredible strength and resistance to wear and corrosion. I'll keep looking to see if I can find the original NASA Tech Brief.
That's exciting. I don't need something super hard for my new product, just sturdy, durable and translucent. Thanks! And what's it called?
I want my glasses made of transparent aluminum no more scratches or chips.
I once looked in to the viability of Alon for a high volume consumer electronics product. Even with the manufacturing scaled to produce large quantities, the cost would been about 100x what I needed.
Scotty : I noticed you're still working with polymers.
Dr. Nichols : Still? What else would I be working with?
Scotty : Aye, what else, indeed? I'll put it another way. How thick would a piece of your Plexiglass need to be, at 60 feet by 10 feet, to withstand the pressure of 18,000 cubic feet of water?
Dr. Nichols : Oh, that's easy. Six inches. We carry stuff that big in stock.
Scotty : I, uh, noticed. Now suppose, just suppose, I were to show you a way to manufacture a wall that would do the same job, but be only one inch thick. Would that be worth something to you, eh?
The writers were probably just referencing Corundum which is Aluminum Oxide when they wrote that scene. ALON is aparently 85% as strong as Corundum. In either case the real secret would have been the manufacturing process to rapidly produce the enormouse slabs that were used not the chemistry. Also if Scotty had been a better engineer he would have just purchased off the shelf rubber sealant spray and made the whole deck a watertight space and omitted the viewing windows because its not an aquarium.
It's been a while since I've seen Star Trek IV, but if I'm remembering it correctly there was some narrative mumbo-jumbo about the actual structure of the ship needing to be reinforced to carry the mass of all the water. If they had reinforced it with plain old high-strength steel and rubber sealant then they would have no excuse for cool cinematic shots of the crew observing whales in tanks aboard a spaceship.
@@bartolomeothesatyr No, the comment about the mass of the water was in relation to the amount of weight that would need to be beamed up.
Also, Scotty didn't use transparent aluminum to build the "aquarium", he gave Dr Nichols the formula for it as payment for sheets of Plexiglass.
Trekkie here, super excited to see that tech from the franchise inspires tech in real life. This is friggin amazing😊. ALON for the W!
HA! This was invented in the 1974 way before Star Trek 4!!! Real science for the W!
@@ku8721 Perhaps the invention of the "Verneuil method" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verneuil_method to create artificial gemstones in the AlON family (eg: sapphire and ruby) in 1883 should be considered the origin year?
@@dj1NM3 Honestly and fully technically YES!!! But the actual ALON material wasn't discovered (honestly from playing RPG games personally feel it was more "unlocked") until 1974 so I feel more than comfortable saying this material only actually predated the movie by 12 years. STILL REAL SCIENCE FOR THE W!!!
Actually, real life inspired the Trek reference, as Alon existed well prior to the movies ever being conceived, much less written.
If you look at the chemical structure on the computer screen it actually shows Alon (or as close as they could achieve without pushing open the cloak of secrecy).
Heck, I carried a device with Alon lenses to the Persian Gulf in 1989 - a laser range finder. Due to its properties it protected the laser emitter without hampering the beam.
More like movies telling us what they already have but mere peasant can not posses
100 years ago the majority of lower class car owners were forced to sit on seats wrapped in leather while the rich upper class had the luxury of seats wrapped in fabric because the cost to produce high-stress fabric was so much higher than the cost of leather. Theres that similar tale of lobsters being poor people food back in the day but its become convoluted over the years.
But leather are stronger than fabric.
Transparent aluminum was described in an article called 'Man Made Rubbies' by O. Ivan Lee as a one of the steps in creating artificial rubies. According to the article, the technique of producing this material was well established and nothing new.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, was in 'Science and Invention' magazine from August 1920 !!!
When I first heard about transparent aluminum, it almost sounded like magic to me, almost hard to believe. But if you think about it, many minerals are transparent. It's really not that extraordinary, but it's still very cool!
So, you're saying we're 1 step closer as a species to being able to go back in time by flying around the sun really really fast to get to 1980's San Fransisco in a stolen Klingon Warbird to capture a whale from Seaworld by beaming it aboard into a cargo hold made of... transparent aluminum? Yay?
You know your Star Track movie. #4
@@richarda996 hey, with all that talk about spaceships and stuff, it was time to save the whales! (it was the 80's, I give 'em a break LOL plus: noo-klee-ah wessles)
@@richarda996 Trek man. By god Rich it’s Star Trek! 🤣
The cargo hold was made of Plexiglass, not transparent aluminum. Scotty gave Dr Nichols the formula in exchange for the Plexiglass.
@@RJSRdg So, you're saying we're 1 step closer as a species to being able to go back in time by flying around the sun really really fast to get to 1980's San Fransisco in a stolen Klingon Warbird to capture a whale from Seaworld by beaming it aboard into a cargo hold made of... perspex? Yay?
when my uncle was in the sas, he used alon as a vest. much lighter than those dead weighted vests.
SAS, huh? Would you ask your uncle for me if he ever worked withthat Hell's Kitchen chef? I'm pretty sure he's ex-SAS.
Good to know that the ocean gate titan didn't break any windows
wow... too soon... But super funny!
so this is what nokia used for their screens
Just more of that Roswell stuff
An alon phone screen sounds amazing!
I do believe you meant to say pounds per square inch, rather than pounds per inch, at 3:05, as this is a pressure measurement.
In the Star Trek movie it was made of Hydrogen, Silver and Aluminum. They got it all wrong even tho it was already a thing back then. Probably because the real ingredients were already patented
He said aluminum. Good man.
1st to come up with the method at a reasonable cost will own everything to do with phone screens front end back And that's enough incentive for some Cellphone companies or glass companies have the perfect product The 1st company to come up with unbreakable cell phone glass and camera glass will be gods in the industry
Companies don't want to sell you one phone for a lifetime. They want to sell same product over and over again. So breakable glass heavily increases phone sales.
I get new phone every 12-24 months usually when its glass breaks.
@@Leeki85 Also , useless if it carries any of aluminums inherent scratch ability.
I been hearing about transparent aluminum since i was born back in 1977. Being the windshield on a sr 71 to Aliens domes in the moon.
My cousin was the main mechanic on the Blackbird just before it was decommissioned. Once it got mothballed, he told me used for many parts of the plane. He said there were also things he still couldn't tell me because they won't be public knowledge for a few decades yet. That was in the 90s, and he's been retired for 18 years now. That stuff he didn't mention STILL isn't public.
Always thought that was a dumb moment in the film. Just because there are fish in it, it doesn't have to be see thru. They could have made the holding tank with regular aluminum walls. Or just plain steel for all of that.
Actually Star Trek used many new and little known cutting edge scientific "facts" in the show, including transparent aluminum and warp drives that are based on real science.
I always thought they were just in a time crunch and were looking for pieces big enough to fit where they needed it with minimal need to cut and shape things.
@@primoroy While I appreciate you put facts in quotes to designate it, I kind of feel that you should have added another for "real science".
Any science that says you can move faster than light, is still theoretical science and nothing more.
If you're gonna nitpick Star Trek IV for making a whale tank out of transparent aluminum, I'mma have to nitpick your referring to whales as "fish". They are mammals.
@@bartolomeothesatyr ah but you see in a society so arrogant as to not only claim there is a god, that demands worship, that created the whole universe, they also claim the god made man in his image, tends to demean all other life in that we are special! When the facts show the whales are far more than man can figure out specifically? Like the amount of information holding capability, in the songs they sing dwarfs human speech! So obviously more important as a life form that would not destroy the Earth as man is doing so actually is probably much closer in appearance to god than man, so of course he unknowingly, not meaning to but naturally refers to the superior life form as a mere fish! Is absolutely the brainwashing of the most murderous industry of petroleum scum!
Sapphire (Al2O3) is transparent too.
It's a stretch to call an aluminum compound aluminum. Actually it has more oxygen and nitrogen in it than aluminum. It's a ceramic. Are zircons transparent zirconium?
Maybe it should be called "Alloyanon"or something.
I recently saw an interview of Bob lazar from years ago talking about what he saw inside that craft he says he worked on area 51, on Joe Rogan podcast. He mentioned a transparent wall and Joe Rogan asked if that was something new and Bob lazar said "no, we already have this type of transparent material". Which makes me think that part of unidentified aerial phenomena are human made.
Does anyone have the tension strength ratings? How brittle is it, can it be impacted and keep clarity, for example blows from a hammer, what will that do to the surface and the transparency(?).
I was curious what else this could practically be used for(current powder compression type)... possibly other fabrication methods than powder compression will expand that (TBD)
I'm guessing it's more of a ceramic than a metal, so no plastic deformation but catastrophic failure and probably in compression it's stronger than in tension.
Blows from a hammer won’t do jack shit if a 50 cal rifle round can’t go through 1.5 inches of it. Also it’s very brittle but to break it you’d need a force like that of a tank round. No joke
This is why NASA uses it for its space shuttle, because this thing is stronger than cast iron. It’s closer to Tungsten in brittleness and we know Tungsten is hella tough
Once it gets tempered and polished, it would be useful for camera lenses, eyeglasses lenses, smart phone screens, tablet screens, etc.
How have i never seen this channel before? I LOVE this kinda tech/science videos. Definitely liking the vid.
Much love from Kenya, Africa. Great content! 👌
old tech, its like saying to a 2020 person that touch screen phone is a new thing
and meh, sure indeed Al2O3 is transparent, but its an oxide, just like ALON
You indicated the pressure in pounds per inch. It should be pounds per square inch.
Maybe they could use chromatic lasers specifically tuned to the color temperature of oxygen to remove all the oxygen from less perfect samples.
We are forever indebted to Lt Commander Montgomery Scott who always stayed current in his technical journals.
I saw a video of Cody's Lab, I think? Or some other youtuber "science guy". He stripped the print off the outside and dissolved the plastic coating on the inside, then he put a flame to it for a few seconds and the aluminum became semi-transparent.
To the eye nothing seemed to have changed, but you could shine a light through it.
It's a ceramic, like those used in body armour - but Aluminium Oxide ceramics are not as tough as those used for armour
The main advantage it has is it is transparent ... but it only has niche uses as it's much more expensive than the non-transparent forms, and other cheaper materials are transparent and good enough, and so it's is only used where needed
They also successfully made transparent tungsten based nano composites for radiation shielding and transparent solar cells partially made out of tungsten. I imagine such materials would be very useful for bulletproof glass on military vehicles!
I would love to see Taofledermaus or Demolition Ranch or How Ridiculous test that claim at 1:38...
So how does this differ from synthetic sapphire (Aluminum Oxide, Al2-O3)?
That’s what I wanted to know too
ALON has nitrogen in it. It is more transparent at wavelengths longer than 5500nm. It isn't quite as hard as sapphire. It is lighter. It is far more expensive to make.
is it electrically conductive?
I wonder if it could be made like an aerogel, and what properties it would have.
Is this different from sapphire glass?
Um isn't Saphire a transparent aluminium compound so it isn't new..
I have a smile from ear to ear... just waiting for transporters and phasers...
You can just hear the narrator wanting to say ah-lue-*min*-ee-um. Poor guy.
I've been meaning to try to find something about this. It's not the newest new thing, but its definitely awesome.
Who else thinks it's fucked up they invented transparent aluminum before they declassified transparent steel used in hypersonic f-14 variants?
Corundum then "transparent aluminum" too
If you _are_ gonna have windows on a space shuttle (not necessary) you would want glass as well, to absorb the excess infrared
Elon needs alon for the Cybertruck windows. “Room for improvement”.
Homeboy is in a clean lab and can’t even put his mask over his nose 🤦♂️
startrek?
I could find a hundred uses here on earth
houses cars industrial glass
construction and farming equipment and if it conducted current it could replace cellphone touch screens
Pretty neat.
spaceships should just use big space rocks for a shield, disposable and durable
THIS IS SO FREAKING COOL!!!!!!
Also used to make fish aquariums for Whales.
Where can I get this at? Also, can this be molded into any shape one chooses? Thank you for this vid. I wish to learn more about this.
Good luck. This stuff is so rare and expensive Edmund Optics doesn't even carry it.
Looks just like plexi glass to me. Depending on the cost of material to produce we can think of a more specific application for use of it.
I'm curious if this could be developed to be used in laser sintering printers.
That is one thing need to be checked, how much heat can that material handle.
They should use it for phone screens and other device screens for for durability especially for phones
I will definitely use this in my sco for series
First you need to learn English.
Is this lighter than glass also?
Remove all spokes from your bicycle and replace it with a big circle of Alon. It will look like a vehicle of TRON
Is Alon as electrically insulating as normal glass or ceramic?
I wonder if it's the same material as amateur astronomers claim to see a clear dome on the moon
Yes, that''s nearly the same, except the dome is imaginary and thisisn't.
I was just looking for some for my starship window on eBay and they were all out.
Us Brits are so silly to pronounce every vowel of Al u min I um, instead of the easier way American's say it.
Then we have so many confusing homonyms & homophones, but at least we don't assign gender to objects (with the exception of ships cars & planes)
Mostly because the original and CORRECT spelling of Aluminum does not have the superfluous i at the end to make it "ium", and the man who discovered/isolated it named it Aluminum and was accepted by the international community as Aluminum. It is only in years since that the wrong pronunciation has been created erroneously by the British so that it will sound like other "ium" elements.
the original discoverer called it aluminum not aluminium. british stuffed shirts changed it to aluminium because they are stuffed shirts.
@@ronblack7870 I believe 'ium suffix was added back to represent its properties of belonging to the alkai metal family (sodium, potassium etc.). But as usual I'm probably wrong..
Brits actually add a letter that isn't there. Aluminum only has one i.
I'd love to see phone manufacturers use Transparent aluminum for the screen glass
Sapphire screens already exist
@@Sockem1223 Sapphire isn't Aluminium tho
@@nicktheneko it's aluminum oxide, not much different from the stuff in this video
0:07 When Americans try to pronounce aluminium correctly.
It’s used on the Enterprise as a transparent view screen!
Maybe the CyberTruck needs windows made out of *ALON*
Changing the pattern of the molecular shape, while keeping the principle elements can replicate clear-metal, with only a marginal intergraty changes.
Spok would of been so proud!
They've had this technology before Star Trek made the movie where is Scotty gives the secret to an inventor to save the whales.
"ALUMINIUM"
Cool AF.
What about making transparent graphene in a similar way. Possible?
We need this for Smartphone screens finally so we cand drop our phones and not break screens.
Would be fun to make an Alon Mask for Halloween 😀
Transparent aluminum has been around for decades, used in Abrams tank ..
Aka Saffire which we can and do make and use in transparent Armor.
is exist trasparent titanium ?
At last, we can house a couple whales with a window 1 inch think.
Is the flux capacitor next ?
What can it do that Sapphire can’t?
Why can’t we use this for those “Glass Bridges”??? Or say for glasses and sun glasses 🤓?
Because those sunglasses would cost over $25,000. Just to give you an idea of how expensive this is. There’s a company out in Mexico that makes armored vehicles for the wealthy and they tend to charge $175,000 to $300,000 to armor a whole SUV depending on the level of protection but that’s the most expensive one so far. With this material you are looking at around $12 million dollars to armor the whole vehicle and you’d get a level 7 protection. The problem is that this company in Mexico doesn’t have the money to invest in this material to get it massed produced since customers ain’t paying that much for it anyways. Just to produce about 1,000 pounds and that’s what’s needed to armor the whole SUV depending on preference of this material so you’ll be looking at the cost to be around $10 million dollars for the production of that alone 😂
The company did get some orders to produce some vehicles with this material, but the people who invented this product don’t have the machines to do this product on orders yet let alone mass produce it. To give you an idea of mass production for this would be around $3 billion dollars just to get all the approval notices done, machines calibrated and ready to go and factories employing over 300,000 employees to start with and if you could get it going somehow after legal challenges etc for about 5 years you’d be making close to $70 billion dollars in just 5 years. In 10 years it would become cheaper so yes you’d make only $50 billion dollars but the market would be there already. In 20 years if a guy like Elon Musk ran this business and massed produced the business alone would be worth $400 billion dollars with military contracts, NASA contracts, private buyers to the biggest market yet the public sector all over the place drooling over this product.
Only 2,000 years since this was brought before Caesar 😂
Wonder Woman's invisible jet might be a reality. :D
Where I work we have made small amounts of transparent Titanium...
You have misspelt aluminium
They have been using this in humvees for a while now. Not all of them but some are.
the struggle was real to say "Aluminum" and not aluminium ;)
Scotty... more power.
Transparent aluminum has been around for over 20 years
Been hearing about this for 10yrs
"Computer? ... um, c o m p u t e r?
This is not the right material
that will help us bring back the whales!"
Aerospace industry such and Airbus & Boeing can use this material to Aircraft.
Wish this tech would be kept out of military hands.
Reason is that once something is made that the military can use to say perhaps defend themselves with then other militaries start making stuff more powerful to destroy it.
Even worse some or many militaries might even use it to start conflicts as well.
Sad that these ways of thinking about tech will never end until the world is completely destroyed by tech.
Ah yes, the famous transparent aluminum which is not aluminum