Meta-Metals

This page is for the transparent metal alloys

History
The ability for a metal to become transparent had been observed ever since before the Great Reckoning, namely in Sodium, the caveat was that the metal only ever became transparent under enormous pressure. This was an exotic new state of matter. While the discovery was quite incredible, it was relatively useless due to the pressures involved.

Interestingly enough, but not surprisingly, it was the Asgard that initially found a stable transparent metal alloy. They found it by accident while making an alloy for the hulls of their ships. After its discovery it replaced crystalline windows and most transparent objects. This information was in the Asgard computer core gifted to earth, it would not be until the Age of Rebirth this knowledge was put to use again.

Meta-Materials Inc was the company that rediscovered the process to make the transparent alloy in 2782 and called it Meta-Metals due to it not having a name prior to it discovery in the Asgard core. Since then, it quickly replaced slod shields as a much cheaper alternatice. Many other places where a shield or crystal was used, Meta-Metals could be used at a much lower cost. As a consequence, certain crystals and shields were rapidly dropping out of modern businesses and homes.

The military took to this new substance with much enthusiasm, and decided bolster windows on ships with both Meta-Metals and shields.

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Sodium, was the best example of the transparent property. (unbeknownst to the Asgard simply because they weren't pursuing such a result) When alloyed with Trinium, the Sodium was able to become transparent at much lower pressure. Though it still was not stable at extremely low pressures such as space. This alloy also suffered from Sodium's reactivity, the sodium would react leaving the Trinium behind. The only way for this to work was for another base metal with low reactivity to be alloyed with these other two metals. Obviously Naquadah was the perfect addition for this role. In addition to stabilizing the Sodium it also made it much more resilliant (as one would imagine).