From: zapkitty@gmx.co.uk   
      
   On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 01:53:47 +0000, Remy Villeneuve wrote:   
      
   > Del Cotter wrote:   
      
   >> Metallic glasses are never transparent, they still have the opacity and   
   >> shiny surface you would associate with metals.  It's the highly mobile   
   >> electrons that do that, and that doesn't change whether the material is   
   >> crystalline or amorphous.   
      
   > And there I was, Googling for transparent aluminum... -sigh-   
      
   The problem is the nomenclature :)   
      
   "Metallic Glass", with the adjectival "metallic" applied to the   
   commonly-known "glass", would atfirst glance seem to be a description of a   
   metallic form of glass with all the accompanying possible misconceptions.   
      
   But in actuality the material under discussion is a metal that has   
   been given some glass-like structural properties.   
      
   "Glassy Metal" would seem to be more accurate and less potentially   
   confusing... folks with actual material science knowledge are free to   
   correct me, of course :)   
      
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