Who said anything about transparent? There are silicate glasses (obsidian, e.g.) that are not transparent but certianly glass. This appears to be an improved amorphus metal.choff wrote:To the layman, if you can see through it, it's glass or transparent plastic.
New glass, ductile and stronger than steel
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Oh I didn't say that the liquid metal or glass is ho-hum. I've been in contact with the folks at Liquidmetal several times looking at new applications. What I said was that you don't understand what is new about the stuff in this thread. Amorphous metals are surely not new. They are indeed glasses. They are freeze formed so quickly that they do not have a metallic lattice, despite they are made of metal. They do not conduct electricity and they have been in the marketplace for years, most notably in the skis made by HEAD.icarus wrote:Quite, it may be the difference of perspective between a lowly "technician" sweating on the front-line of cutting edge research and a mere parasitical broker of "technologies", real or imagined. Ductile glass is ho-hum "schtick" out of Caltech and warp drive research is all-there but for some much needed funding pies to stick fingers thumbs into ...I think it is funny the research you choose to dismiss, considering the research you defend.
Delusions of grandeur must do odd things to a person's logical thought processes.
The headliner for the article that started this thread was about glass that is stronger than steel. What I'm saying is, this is more than a decade old--it is not, as the article suggests "news".
http://www.liquidmetal.com/applications ... orting.asp
If you need to pick a fight with someone, icarus; at least have the courtesy to avoid misrepresenting that person. Honestly, trolls like you will always find something to whine and complain about. You don't need to make stuff up.
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The article suggests that the "news" is the use of Palladium. Hard to know what is new given the writer did not know the state of this technology. What it wrongly states is that amorphous alloys are new. They're not. It is this one particular alloy that appears to be new. Now you're right, Giorgio; it may well be this particular alloy is head over heels above and beyond all the other cryogenically injection molded liquid metals. What is not new, is glass that is stronger than steel. That's been around for more than a decade, and is already in the marketplace. Fact is, I saw an interview with the owner of HEAD on NASA TV a couple years ago, and he was holding a pair of skis with this amorphous metal in them.Giorgio wrote:Right... what diference can this make?GIThruster wrote:Only real difference I can see is the new stuff is ductile whereas the stuff in consumption is injection molded and not marketed as "ductile".
Kinda like when in 1400 they discovered that Iron could be transformed in ductile Steel. Old news also that one and it really didn't make any difference in the end, didn't it?
According to HEAD, because these flash frozen metals do not have a metallic lattice, they cannot suffer metal fatigue over time, so their new skis never wear out.
At least, that's the claim.
Point is, the thing that makes this a glass is not silicon. It's the flash freezing injection molding process that cools the alloy so quickly, it cannot form a metallic lattice. This process is not new in any sense, nor is the existence of glass that is stronger than steel. it appears what is new, is one particular alloy including Palladium.
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I am aware of that and object to this widely used malapropism (ok, I think it a malapropism). The lack of a lattice doesn't make it a glass but an amorphos metal, IMHO.GIThruster wrote: Point is, the thing that makes this a glass is not silicon. It's the flash freezing injection molding process that cools the alloy so quickly, it cannot form a metallic lattice.
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"Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid material. . .KitemanSA wrote:I am aware of that and object to this widely used malapropism (ok, I think it a malapropism). The lack of a lattice doesn't make it a glass but an amorphos metal, IMHO.GIThruster wrote: Point is, the thing that makes this a glass is not silicon. It's the flash freezing injection molding process that cools the alloy so quickly, it cannot form a metallic lattice.
In science, however, the term glass is usually defined in a much wider sense, including every solid that possesses a non-crystalline (i.e. amorphous) structure and that exhibits a glass transition when heated towards the liquid state. In this wider sense, glasses can be made of quite different classes of materials: metallic alloys, ionic melts, aqueous solutions, molecular liquids, and polymers. For many applications (bottles, eyewear) polymer glasses (acrylic glass, polyethylene terephthalate) are a lighter alternative to traditional silica glasses."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass
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