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Scientists in Japan say they have found a way to create a new type of glass that’s almost as strong as steel and nearly unbreakable.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Industrial Science have published findings of their experiments in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, a breakthrough that could change commercial use of glass.
Glass as we currently know it, is based on silica (silicon dioxide), the main component of sand. The innovative method that the Tokyo team has come up with uses a different process for creating safer, indestructible glass. The secret ingredient used in creating the durable glass is alumina, an oxide of aluminum. Mixed with silicon dioxide, it results in an exceptionally tough glass.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday November 09 2015, @11:24AM
More technologic opportunities for architects to come up with daring and original designs.
JK, we all know they'll come up with more "go home, building, you're drunk" stuff. Have fun, engineers.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 09 2015, @02:22PM
abd when they do make them change all the light bulbs!
And wash the windows!
IT maybe pretty but not maintainable...
There is hotel in Atlanta that hires the local mountain climbing group to come once a year to clean the glass roof of snack bar in the middle of the atrium. The landscape (concrete) around it will not allow a "cherry picker" close enought to work on it, nor is roof strong enough to hold weight. So the mountaineers climb out on the rafters and repeal down to the roof and turn up side down and clean it, then climb back up.