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Friday, June 29, 2007
Delicate Whiskers
(via National Geographic Magazine) Delicate whiskers each a single crystal of sapphire, possess amazing strength and heat resistance. Combined with metals, they form materials that may one day meet the structural demands of superlength suspension bridges and heat-plagued hypersonic aircraft.
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