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Transparent Aluminum- ALON -Take 2

Posted June 15, 2012 12:00 AM by Milo
Pathfinder Tags: alon Transparent Aluminum

We wrote about Transparent Aluminum early in our blogging adventure.

(Nowadays, we can talk to our computers…)

According to MAKE magazine the science seems to have caught up with the fiction.

ALON's Transparent Aluminum Stops Bullets…

If you ever find yourself in front of a high-speed projectile with an inch of ALON's Transparent Aluminum separating you and the projectile it just might help you-

https://blog.makezine.com/2012/01/17/transparent-aluminum/

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Re: Transparent Aluminum- ALON -Take 2

06/15/2012 7:24 AM

Transparent aluminum = sapphire. Sapphire windows have been available for a long time. You can buy them from Edmund Optics.

http://www.edmundoptics.com/optics/windows-diffusers/ultraviolet-uv-infrared-ir-windows/sapphire-windows/1904

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