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Ned Simmons wrote:

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You want scratch resistance and you want it now? Try the close cousin
to the armor, aluminum oxide. Used for bar scanner windows.

Also known as corundum.

I believe you probably meant "carborundum"...


Corundum is natural crystalline aluminum oxide, Carborundum
is a tradename for manmade silicon carbide.

Ned Simmons


Ahhh... OK. There lies my confusion. I knew with certainty that both are
used for abrasives, at least

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