Everything about Transparent Alumina totally explained
Transparent alumina is a transparent form of
aluminium oxide, Al
2O
3. In bulk, solid form, alumina is a colourless, transparent solid.
Ruby and
sapphire are two forms, containing different impurities, which occur naturally.== Manufacture ==
As a powder or solid formed by
sintering (welding together small particles), alumina is opaque or
translucent. Recently, a method of sintering very small particles of alumina has been developed by researchers at the
Fraunhofer Institute for
Ceramic Technologies and Sintered Materials. This sintered alumina is very hard, nearly transparent, and has a very high melting point (2303
Kelvin), yet like other sintered materials it can be produced at temperatures much lower than its melting point.
In
2004, Anatoly Rosenflanz and colleagues at
3M in
Minnesota used a "flame-spray" technique to alloy alumina (aluminium oxide) with rare-earth metal oxides to produce strong glass with good optical properties. The method avoids many of the problems encountered in conventional glass forming and may be extensible to other oxides.
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