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Only on Star Trek do we find transparent aluminum. Any aluminum matrix is opaque. You can't see through it.

Actually there is such thing as transparent aluminum but the power required for the x-ray laser is more than a whole city's worth and the beam must be focused down to a point of less than one-twentieth of a human hair and only lasts for 40 femtoseconds.

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