The first is that it will be made, at least in part, of metallic glass.

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The second is more complicated: metallic glass is an odd material and many will get this wrong.

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One switched Branagan's samples of metallic glass with similar-looking Christmas tinsel.

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For anyone who is interested in seeing what this metallic glass is like see if you can get hold of the special little tool that Apple hands out with the iPhone3 for removing the SIM card.

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But if you heat up the alloy until it liquefies--Branagan's powder must be heated to 1, 200 degrees Celsius and applied with a thermal spray gun--it turns into an ashy powder as it cools, a metallic glass with "frustrated" molecules, as Branagan calls them, anxious to form a lattice, but confined by their inability to move.

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The display screen for the iPhone 5 could reduce a layer of glass if the metallic layer for the touch screen is applied to the protective glass, and the result would be a thinner screen.

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The models involved are the 12-cup coffeemaker version with a molded handle the same color as the machine and a silver metallic bracket running around the glass near the bottom, the safety commission's recall announcement said.

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Using the "refined hairline grooves" of a peacock as a template, a research team led by Professor Jay Guo has found success in creating a prototype of one such high-res display by crafting nanoscale metallic grooves on silver-plated glass.

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In the new iPhone 5, the new LCD technology allows the metallic layer to be applied directly on it rather than needing a separate piece of glass.

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