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What does aerogel mean?

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Noun
  1. A porous, ultralight solid-state substance, similar to gel, in which the liquid component is replaced with gas.
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An aerogel is a porous network of silica strands with diameters of a few nanometres.
To use the aerogel as a display, external magnetic fields would be used to flip the needles back and forth.
A sugar-cube-sized piece of aerogel made of carbon material may have an internal surface area of as much as 2 000 square metres.
A tennis racket-shaped canister packed with a material called aerogel will capture the particles during the flyby.
I knew aerogel could trap small moving objects, but I had no idea it was such a good insulator.
Products combining pyrethrin and silica aerogel are also available for the control of roaches.

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