Aquarium in Berlin Explodes

[L13]

Yep, trade-marked, CAPITALIZED.
Now look it up uncapitalized....generic, in common use.

Kind of like the difference between Aspirin (trade mark of Bayer) and aspirin (the common name for acetylsalicylic acid).

 

[lowwall]

Should have used transparent aloominum

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It exists. Well, it's a transparent ceramic that's about 1/3 aluminum: Aluminium oxynitride - Wikipedia

Cost is on the order of $15k per square meter ($10 per square inch) and sheet size is currently limited to about half a square meter so maybe not useful for this particular application.

 

[Bigbella]

Let's see...a 50 ft (15 m) column of water. About 1.5 ATM (bar) over ambient, or 14.7 * 1.5 = 22 psi (1.55 kg/cm2). That's a lot of pressure. If they had just engineered in a little extra margin, who knows? Still, as stated, not the world's best idea.

Eh, it did last about twenty years -- about twice what I had expected . . .

 

[WeRtheOcean]

It is rare to see an obese person there

That's because they haven't discovered body positivity yet.

Wonder if they used cardboard, cardboard derivatives, paper, string, or cellotape.

You can fix anything with duct tape, right?