Transparent aluminum: Tiny acid droplets turn metal into glass-like material (phys.org)
from cm0002@lemmy.world to science@mander.xyz on 14 Feb 2025 03:55
https://lemmy.world/post/25547791

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propter_hog@lemmygrad.ml on 14 Feb 2025 04:14 next collapse

Scotty was right

SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world on 14 Feb 2025 05:37 next collapse

Just don’t hand him a mouse (at least not without a demonstration of how to use it).

acockworkorange@mander.xyz on 14 Feb 2025 06:43 collapse

How quaint.

RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com on 14 Feb 2025 15:48 collapse

I mean… yes, of course he was.

AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 2025 04:19 next collapse

That’s just (synthetic) sapphire, right?

Aolley@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 2025 04:49 collapse

Aluminimum Oxide sure is and it can be make clear, I don’t know why they added the T or x connotation This article appears to be more on a new method of creating that directly out of Al. That said, “electrowetting” is the name of my new rock band, or is it the name of your sex tape?

Grimpen@lemmy.ca on 14 Feb 2025 05:35 collapse

I heard the kids these days are all electrowetting.

thefartographer@lemm.ee on 14 Feb 2025 07:03 collapse

I got a heated blanket for my bed so I can now enjoy chronic electrowetting instead of regular bedwetting

OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 2025 04:45 next collapse

NileRed here we come

_stranger_@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 2025 18:27 collapse

That video is going to be awesome a year from now

OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 2025 19:11 collapse

Oh yeah. At least it’ll be 5 hours long

Etterra@discuss.online on 14 Feb 2025 04:45 next collapse

How do we know he didn’t invent the bloody thing?

Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 2025 05:46 next collapse

Okay, now make large sheets of the stuff because we need to transport whales… Somewhere.

cm0002@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 2025 05:48 collapse

Err I’m a whale who’s totally cool with you taking me off this planet if that’s where you happened to be going, not that that’s what I’m saying or anything.

Um whale sounds

innermeerkat@jlai.lu on 14 Feb 2025 07:13 next collapse

A very welcoming website

<img alt="" src="https://jlai.lu/pictrs/image/70eb37e7-f88a-4456-9a56-1e2fdaa5a462.png">

cm0002@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 2025 07:21 collapse

You use the internet without an ad blocker‽ Lol this is how a fresh open of the link looks for me

<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3da041d2-b24d-4cc5-bc80-dc8eb1eea4ea.png">

innermeerkat@jlai.lu on 14 Feb 2025 07:42 collapse

I can’t open links with an external browser on voyager’s pwa :(

cm0002@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 2025 07:58 next collapse

Ah, looks like you’re on iOS, you should come over to Android, system-wide ad blocking is amazing.

Though I think there are options for iOS that are also system-wide

dave@feddit.uk on 14 Feb 2025 08:20 next collapse

Or use Arctic on iOS. This is what I see. Internal browser configured to use Reader by default. It’s about 98% effective.

<img alt="screenshot" src="https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/73d49323-8074-4deb-ad81-31b2002e4c71.webp">

thisismyname@lemm.ee on 14 Feb 2025 21:14 collapse

How do system wide ad blocking on Android?

cm0002@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 2025 21:29 collapse

If you can, root and an app called AdAway (on f-droid)

I’m fairly certain AdAway can do the job without root, it’s just not as efficient because it has to do some trickery with VPNs and stuff where as with root it can apply it’s blocks directly to the system hosts file

guynamedzero@sh.itjust.works on 14 Feb 2025 10:00 collapse

Tap the button to the left of the refresh button (top right), you should then be able to tap something like “open reader” which does a decent job at blocking intrusive ads

Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee on 14 Feb 2025 09:03 next collapse

So invisible jets (with wondrous pilots) when?

(Or do we just wait for pollution to turn the rain acidic like this?)

boreengreen@lemm.ee on 14 Feb 2025 10:22 next collapse

So we get a gem fused to aluminium. Cool

jawa21@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 14 Feb 2025 11:37 next collapse

That’s the ticket, laddie.

Septimaeus@infosec.pub on 14 Feb 2025 14:51 next collapse

That’s the ticket, laddie.

Majorllama@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 2025 18:32 next collapse

I love science. The last time they were trying to figure out how to make a strong and moldable “glass” they accidentally discovered super glue.

If they can really make aluminum completely clear the applications for such a thing would be pretty wide.

iAvicenna@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 2025 21:59 collapse

TRANSMUTATION