Article: Formidable films. (transparent films for food packaging) (Food Manufacturing & Packaging)

Aluminum oxide and silicon oxide coatings add moisture and oxygen barriers to transparent films for food packaging.

In the movie Star Trek IV -- The Voyage Home, the Enterprise propelled itself back in time to 20th Century Earth to retrieve two whales. A large tank made of transparent aluminum was required to hold the giant mammals aboard the starship. However, transparent aluminum hadn't been invented yet, so Scotty and Sulu had to cleverly reveal the formula to a manufacturer, who built the tank.

In real life, transparent aluminum doesn't exist... Well, hold onto your phasers trekkie fans, transparent aluminum is here today in the form of aluminum ...

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