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To: E. Charters who wrote (1256)	9/1/2003 7:29:09 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16206

EC, Well, time makes for a stress reduced crystal, so the rushed artificial stones are less good with that now. Interesting concept is to make layered diamonds and introduce small amounts of insolubles in the sub micron range. These act as stress pinners, and thus increase toughness since a crack cannot propagate as easily. If you do it with sapphire(alundum) and make the inclusions all under 1/5 the wavelength of light you get a battle tank window you can see through. I imagine the same tech with diamond would work and make a new generation of bullet proof glass. stp-gateway.de Now do this with diamond powders. GE has lots of stuff abrasivesnet.com Bill