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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: 240 is Back on September 16, 2012, 10:43:33 PM
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This picture is of a 2.5kg brick supported by a piece of aerogel, the worlds lightest solid material. This particular piece weighs in with a mass of 2 grams.
Aerogel is nicknamed 'frozen smoke' or 'solid air', due to the fact that it is composed of 99.98% air by volume. Aerogels are a diverse class of amazing materials with properties unlike anything else known. They exhibit the lowest thermal conductivity of any known solid, and are the lowest density structural materials ever developed.
In spite of their name, aerogels are solids and not gels. The name is derived from the production process, the liquid component of a gel is extracted through supercritical drying. The first aerogels were produced from silica gels, but later work produced aerogels based on alumina, chromia and tin dioxide.
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Light weight, baby!! Nuttin but some 99.98% air!
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Hand-Moulded, Coal-Fired red brick, which appears to be a Chatsworth or a Golds Hill Colonial.
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Hand-Moulded, Coal-Fired red brick, which appears to be a Chatsworth or a Golds Hill Colonial.
Posts like this are why I love this place. Absolutely well timed TA!
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Expect the next pair of $250-350 Nikes made from this stuff (along with Carbonfiber).
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How would this material have an advantage over current fabrics?
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Hand-Moulded, Coal-Fired red brick, which appears to be a Chatsworth or a Golds Hill Colonial.
No, but good try that one was lego.
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Light weight, baby!! Nuttin but some 99.98% air!
Makes it easier for the gas to pass out the ass end of the suit when you fart during a heavy squat.
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How would this material have an advantage over current fabrics?
As the article says it would be a transparent material, so what Getbigger wouldn't want to see other guys wearing it?