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Comments on Metallic Glass Stronger Than Steel
The new metallic glass is a microalloy featuring palladium. (Read
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"For you cyberpunks, Silverberg's 1970 novel Tower of Glass contains the earliest known instance of the phrase "jack themselves directly into a computer". See the entry for jack in."
(Bill Christensen 1/11/2011 7:20:20 PM) |
"It sort of makes me think of Transparent Aluminum from Star Trek. "
(R Williams 1/11/2011 8:08:07 PM) |
"It might be worth a mention that metallic glass refers to it's structure (amorphous, not crystalline), not that it is transparent. Most metallic glasses look almost exactly the same as 'normal' metals (i.e. opaque and shiny)."
( 1/12/2011 4:33:35 AM) |
"There might be a reference to "metalloglass" in one of Edmund Hamilton's space operas, but I'm not sure."
(Winchell Chung 1/12/2011 7:03:49 AM) |
"if it was transparent I would have suggested 'transpaisteel' from the Star Wars novels"
( 1/12/2011 1:30:03 PM) |
"Martin Caidin's 1978 novel, "Aquarius Mission", also featured glassite in the construction of deep-sea submersibles, where the hull could transition from opaque to transparent."
(Chris Johnston 1/17/2011 4:41:13 AM) |
"Compare to the "glassite walls" in a moon-based mining operation from Ray Cummings' 1930 novel Brigands of the Moon."
(Bill Christensen 1/25/2011 9:24:19 PM) |
"It reminded me of "transparasteel" too, from Brian Daley's Han Solo trilogy (love those books - wish he had written more!)"
(Blakeney 2/8/2011 6:50:28 PM) |
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