Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A highly porous solid formed from a gel, such as silica gel, in which the liquid is replaced with a gas.
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- noun A solid-state
substance , similar togel , in which theliquid component is replaced withgas .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Silica aerogel is the most common type of aerogel and the most extensively studied and used.
Solid Smoke 2008
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Silica aerogel is an extemely low-density material derived from silicon based gel, in which the liquid component of the gel has been replaced with gas.
Solid Smoke 2008
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This opened an completely new area in aerogel research.
A Real Spinoff that NASA Has Seemingly Forgotten About - NASA Watch 2009
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It's made of aerogel, which is the lightest substance that we know of.
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It's made of aerogel, which is the lightest substance that we know of.
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Oh-at the Museum in San Jose there was a pile of this stuff called aerogel-solid, yet almost entirely air.
Microserfs Coupland, Douglas 1995
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Cabot's aerogel, which is the lightest and best insulating solid in the world.
unknown title 2011
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It extended a retractable device containing cells filled with a material called aerogel, a porous substance designed to trap dust molecules.
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The tangled nanotubes are constructed into a film that can be described as an aerogel, meaning it contains more air than anything else.
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The 'aerogel' is almost as light as air, as stretchy as rubber, and stiffer than steel by weight.
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The researchers used egg whites to create an aerogel, a lightweight and porous material that can be used in many types of applications, including water filtration, energy storage, and sound and thermal insulation.
Egg whites can be transformed into a material capable of filtering microplastics from seawater Julia Schwarz 2022
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