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Skylight insulation material, perhaps
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aerogel
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Aerogel is a synthetic porous ultralight material derived from a gel , in which the liquid component of the gel has been replaced with a gas . The result is a solid with extremely low density and low thermal conductivity . Nicknames include frozen smoke ...
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n. A porous, ultralight solid-state substance, similar to gel, in which the liquid component is replaced with gas.
Usage examples of aerogel.
Red Hawkins, having finished his harvest and replenished the aerogel and biocultures in Baleen No.
She shoved the feather-light, nearly invisible aerogel container across the bar.
A servo arm located behind the bar, which glowed with its own colony of bioluminescent bacteria, gently picked up the aerogel cylinder and placed it in sequence behind half a dozen other empties, to be refilled in its turn.
The aerogel container returned, its internal boundaries defined by pale rose liquid topped off with pink foam which popped and crackled musically.
Her fingers seemed to close around frozen smoke as she lifted the aerogel container.
He forcibly turned his attention to the brilliantly illuminated wall of lights, cut crystal, stained aerogel, mirrors, and high-tech circuitry which constituted the bar.
Since the aerogel cylinders weighed next to nothing, the implied threat only widened his smile.
Since the aerogel cylinders weighed next to nothing, the im-plied threat only widened his smile.
Jimmy could have wrapped his arms around the composite and aerogel structure and kissed it, he would have.
How many tons of aerogel and composite traveling at how many klicks, and they were letting a teenager land it?
The background whine of the LOX and LH2 compressors, which had been barely audible through the plated aerogel hull, ceased, and a few moments later Yoshi announced that the ground crew had cleared the pad.
The mast was festooned with aerogel support rings and shrouds and stays that transmitted the thrust to the vessel.
All during the outbound journey he snuggled within the confines of the Salyut living quarters as if it were a cocoon woven of steel and aerogel and glass within which struggled a caterpillar named Jimmy Poole.
The aerogel support for the main sail had nudged hard against the ragged surface of the asteroid.
A tenuous aerogel foam bubbled and farted, rushing out into a ballooning mass as the dog lunged forward, teeth snapping, making a soft growling sound deep in its throat.