I think I am going to review and revive some of my ballistic armor research. Some of the spider silk/polymer combinations, when dissolved, might penetrate into this wood. Three other ideas occur to me. First, I wonder if this wood, when impregnated with the appropriate ions, could be used to make the resonant chamber of a wood based laser. Second, I wonder if the process I employed and discussed earlier in the forum to make artificial rubies and emeralds (Folded stone art by Jose Manuel Castro Lopez ) , could be incorporated with this wood to make gem encrusted transparent wood or solid ruby/emerald glass wood. Finally, this wood might be soaked and take up a wide variety on nano materials to construct all kinds of materials with exotic properties such as liquid crystalline display materials, variable focus lenses, magnetic wood, etc, etc.
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