When the Enterprise crashes on Veridian III, the scene in a crew members quarters, the windows above them shatter. However in Star Trek: The Next Generation it was established that the windows are made of transparent aluminum, if so, they would not shatter like normal window glass.Sapphire glass used on watches and phones is synthetic aluminium oxide Al2O3. We don't truly know the properties of transparent aluminium, but it can be crystal lattice compound instead of pure metal lattice aluminium. After all different aluminium's used to build cars, planes, boats etc. are not pure aluminium but mixtures of different metals. Transparent aluminium can also be trademark like Gorilla Glass, which isn't made of gorillas. Thus we don't know how it behaves under stress.
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05/03/2025 alle ore 08:22