Yttralox is a transparent ceramic consisting of yttria (Y2O3) containing approximately 10% thorium dioxide (ThO2).[1][2] It was one of the first transparent ceramics produced,[3] and was invented in 1966 by Richard C. Anderson at the General Electric Research Laboratory while sintering mixtures of rare earth minerals.
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Yttralox is a transparent ceramic consisting of yttria (Y2O3) containing approximately 10% thorium dioxide (ThO2). It was one of the first transparent...
bulbs. In 1966, GE announced a ceramic "transparent as glass", called Yttralox. In 2004, Anatoly Rosenflanz and colleagues at 3M used a "flame-spray"...