Due to its flexibility, extreme resistance to chemical attack and optical transparency, this material, along with PFA is routinely used for plastic labware and tubing that involves critical or highly corrosive processes.
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Moreover, many scientists have measured the evolution of electrical conductivity, optical transparency, corrosion resistance, and wear resistance of different polymers after irradiation by electron or low-energy light ions or high-energy heavy ions.
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"Mother Nature usually doesn't give you optical transparency, high mechanical strength, outstanding chemical durability, all of these things at once, " said George Sigel, professor of ceramic and materials engineering at Rutgers University.
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It has an optical transparency in the range of 0.35 12 �m, and its radiation is primarily due to alpha particles, which can be easily stopped by a thin cover layer of another material.
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While single-crystalline ceramics may be largely defect-free ( particularly within the spatial scale of the incident light wave ), optical transparency in polycrystalline materials is limited by the amount of light that is scattered by their microstructural features.
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Because of its unique combination of thermal and chemical stability, low thermal expansion and high optical transparency in a wide spectral range, synthetic diamond is becoming the most popular material for optical windows in high-power CO 2 lasers and gyrotrons.
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Indium tin oxide is one of the most widely used transparent conducting oxides because of its two main properties : its electrical conductivity and optical transparency, as well as the ease with which it can be deposited as a thin film.
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I've no idea if they are any better for greenhouses than glass or perspex, but I'd imagine that the thermal insulation is a lot better and the optical transparency is only slighly worse talk ) 09 : 24, 9 October 2014 ( UTC)
