{"id":13142,"date":"2005-10-21T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/21\/transparent-aluminum\/"},"modified":"2005-10-21T23:09:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-21T23:09:00","slug":"transparent-aluminum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/21\/transparent-aluminum\/","title":{"rendered":"Transparent Aluminum!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although it&rsquo;s nine years later than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0092007\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Star Trek IV<\/i><\/a> predicted, a &ldquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transparent_aluminum\" target=\"_blank\">transparent aluminum<\/a>&rdquo; has finally been synthesized.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123012131\" target=\"_blank\">new material is being developed as a supplement to current transparent armor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Air Force Research Laboratory&rsquo;s materials and manufacturing directorate is testing aluminum oxynitride (ALON\u2122) as a replacement for the traditional multi-layered glass transparencies now used in existing ground and air armored vehicles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very cool&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/10\/19\/transparent_armor.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/military\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">military<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/aviation\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">aviation<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/science\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">science<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/startrek\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">startrek<\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-112983790904349810?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it&rsquo;s nine years later than Star Trek IV predicted, a &ldquo;transparent aluminum&rdquo; has finally been synthesized. The new material is being developed as a supplement to current transparent armor: The Air Force Research Laboratory&rsquo;s materials and manufacturing directorate is testing aluminum oxynitride (ALON\u2122) as a replacement for the traditional multi-layered glass transparencies now used &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/10\/21\/transparent-aluminum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transparent Aluminum!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}