April 04, 2004
Neato!
Speaking of perfectly round balls... *ducks*
Scientists levitate ultra-pure glass
By Tariq Malik
SPACE.com Thursday, April 1, 2004
An experiment originally designed to fly on the International Space Station led a team of researchers to develop a completely new type of glass, a material formed while floating in mid-air in a NASA laboratory on Earth.
| Using static electrical fields to levitate the material, scientists were able to construct a pure glass, free of any contamination typically associated with containers. It could serve as the centerpiece for new medical and industrial lasers, as well as have broadband Internet applications. |  |
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