Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Transparent Aluminum Is "New State of Matter"

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 28, @01:01PM
from the baseball-bats-will-never-be-the-same dept.
Professor_Quail writes with this interesting excerpt:"Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminum by bombarding the metal with the world's most powerful soft X-ray laser. 'Transparent aluminum' previously only existed in science fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science and nuclear fusion."

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