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Transparent Metal Hints at Nature of Planets Monday, July 27, 2009 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Physics   
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Transparent aluminum, a sci-fi material brought to 20th century Earth by the crew of The Enterprise in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, turns out to exist after all - if you see in X-rays. To create this exotic state of matter, researchers at the FLASH facility in Hamburg, Germany, took a thin piece of aluminum foil and blasted it with an X-ray laser that can generate about 10 million gigawatts of power per square centimeter. (source: newscientist.com)
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