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AI Dreams => General Chat => Topic started by: Art on June 01, 2019, 08:16:27 pm
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...that is the World's Lightest (or actually least dense) Solid?
Comprised of 99.8 % air, great thermal properties and practically transparent to name a few...
Meet, Aerogel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeJ9q45PfD0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeJ9q45PfD0)
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Fascinating - I was hoping he would squish it or something so we could get an idea of the texture.
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He did try squeezing it and it crumbled. It's more of a solid than a squishy piece of foamy air-filled plastic, I should imagine.
Very cool none-the-less.
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Maybe it would be a bit like charcoal. But even lighter and more brittle.
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And almost transparent and heat resistant and non-flammable and extremely lightweight and...
charcoal? ;)
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Well... apart from all that. ;D
I donno they just seem similar to me. Like the porosity, the brittle texture, it seems like they would sound similar when dropped onto a table.
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Invented 88 years ago, now interplanetary.