Originally posted by Calesta@Aug 28 2004, 12:46 AM
It said somewhere in there that they had optical quality transparent aluminum alloy with 95% the strength of normal non-transparent stuff. I'd say that's pretty solid. You almost never use Aluminum for construction in its elemental form anyway. Most structural metals are alloyed with something to give better hardness / strength properties than just a pure element.
hmmm. i took it to say that 95% of the glasses they produced were transparent. i didnt see any talk of comparing it or its strength to regular alluminum.
maybe it does have mettalic properies, but from that article, it doesnt say anything about it.