World's Lightest Solid!
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2019-05-31に共有
At one point Dr. Steven Jones literally held the Guinness World Record for making the lightest aerogel and therefore lightest solid. If you're interested in learning more about aerogels, let me know in the comments as there is a potential trilogy in the works...
Huge thanks to Dr. Stephen Steiner and the crew at Aerogel Technologies. To find out more or buy your own aerogel sample, check out: www.aerogeltechnologies.com/
Thanks to Dr. Steven Jones and Dr. Mihail Petkov at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
And thanks to FLIR for loaning us the awesome high definition thermal camera. The footage is amazing! www.flir.com/
Special thanks to Patreon supporters:
Donal Botkin, Michael Krugman, Ron Neal, Stan Presolski, Terrance Shepherd, Penward Rhyme and everyone who provided feedback on an early draft of this video.
Filming by Raquel Nuno
Animations by Maria Raykova
Drawings by Mariel Solsberg
Music From epidemicsound.com/ "Seaweed" "Swagger Stagger"
コメント (21)
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Air: Who are you? Aerogel: I’m you but stronger.
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"99.8% Air" So the company producing this is associated with Lays, huh?
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As a thermal engineer, I appreciate this great scientific innovation. Looking forward to sharing this great video with my thermal group at Villanova University, USA!
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I remember reading about this in USA Today about 30 years ago. They had a picture of an Aerogel cube in a person's hand, and a candle flame in the background. They said that Aerogel worked so well, that if a room was fully insulated with the substance, the candle flame would be enough to heat the room. I thought that was so intriguing. And yet, I never really heard much about it again. I'm guessing it's both very expensive and very fragile to be practical in mass insulation production.
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So you are basically holding a piece of the sky
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Aerogel: iam 99.8% air but why do i hear boss music playing Lays: are you challenging me?
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It's great to know about aerogels that have really great and interesting properties. Watching the video about the various uses and roles of the aerogel, I found it very attractive. I'm also looking forward to watching the aerogel develop further. Not only do we hope for more innovation and development in the future, but we also look forward to seeing aerogels being used in new areas.
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The fact that they did this in 1931 is actually what blows my mind; it reframes what I think of scientific progress and capability back then
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The world's second lightest solid is my wallet. Edit: Yo, I left for a year and came back to look at this thread. And nope. I am not even gonna ask.
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Aerogel- has 99.8% air. Lays-HoLd My AiR
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Would aerogel make for good screen protectors for phones since it scatters the color blue more then red/yellow?
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Thank you so much for uploading this video. It is helping me get through the pandemic!
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I have never wanted to touch something more in my life. Edit: this comment has been on this video for two years and, to this day, I get notifications of people liking it in my inbox. It wasn’t even supposed to be a joke! I was but a simple fool writing the first thing I thought. It haunts me.
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Aerogel - I’m the closest to air possible Lays - Observe
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Found this by accident & am so glad I did!! Fascinating!
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There's a lot of organic and polymer chemistry in aerogels. Very exciting materials!
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10:40 I totally did not expect THAT sound.
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“This object is 99.8% air” Lays: finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary
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Wow, crazy how something so simple can make such a big impact. I’m sure there’s so much more we can do with this in do time. Very interesting👍🏽
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The animation of Knudsen effect was next level 💥
