Re: Strengths of materials

From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@turbont.net)
Date: Tue Aug 08 2000 - 09:56:53 MDT


sweet pic, Amara. Wait, I know that fuzzball. I've got tons of them under my
bed... ;)

Amara Graps wrote:
>
> From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net), Mon Aug 07 2000
>
> >Sapphire whiskers (Al2O3) is the strongest material that has been
> >measured
>
> Is that Al2O3 correct? I didn't know that sapphire whiskers and
> Aluminum oxide was the same material. Cool.>
> Here is a picture of an aluminum oxide sphere attached to a
> micrometeroid (cosmic dust) particle:
>
> http://galileo.mpi-hd.mpg.de/~graps/earth/image001.gif



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