PariahZero
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This just sounds interesting:
Apparently, some folks at the University of Maryland have worked out how to make wood transparent.
The process sounds deceptively simple: take wood, treat it with 30% hydrogen peroxide (note: it’s pretty dangerous at 30%), leave it out in the sun to bleach white as snow.
Next you impregnate the now-white wood with epoxy. There are reports that it can be used for any thickness of wood.
There’s even a lengthy paper describing it.
This isn’t the first way they’ve figured out how to make wood transparent.
So of course I thought of cues... not that there aren’t other transparent materials.
Apparently, some folks at the University of Maryland have worked out how to make wood transparent.
The process sounds deceptively simple: take wood, treat it with 30% hydrogen peroxide (note: it’s pretty dangerous at 30%), leave it out in the sun to bleach white as snow.
Next you impregnate the now-white wood with epoxy. There are reports that it can be used for any thickness of wood.
There’s even a lengthy paper describing it.
This isn’t the first way they’ve figured out how to make wood transparent.
So of course I thought of cues... not that there aren’t other transparent materials.
