World's Lightest Solid!
Aerogels are the world's lightest (least dense) solids. They are also excellent thermal insulators and have been used in numerous Mars missions and the Stardust comet particle-return mission. The focus of this video is silica aerogels, though graphene aerogels are now technically the lightest.
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"
Veritasium: Aerogel is the world's lightest solid Me: What about paper?
0:00 . rewind 5 seconds or 10 seconds back from 0:00 , but you have to do it one tap at a time. It looks very weird
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can you do that to humans?
I want to eat that for some reason
want to smoke that air to get high
I mean paper is the slightest solid? like tear into really small! I mean it should be
..en 20" afirma que si quita todo el aire seria menos denso que el aire... entonces no debiera flotar, elevarse en la atmósfera??? ..in 20 "affirms that if you remove all the air it would be less dense than air ... then it should not float, rise in the atmosphere ???
i watched this because i thought it was just an edit, and boy i was proven wrong
ahhh the days before having to wear masks
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so this is a solid?
Wwooooohhhhh
Oh so they 've found that object which have more air than lays
1 grain of rice is not even weigh 1gm
crush it
Jesus Christ is God.
Woh ...wortful
Your subtitle is so irritated.
Nice teeth
Awesome
"This is" Air jello literal air that looks like jello
Now if you could make it out of a high hydrogen substance to defeat radiation I know a Starship builder who would invest ship loads.😉
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could it be used to construct an see through plane skin? or added to tank armor to dampen Monroe effect? bazooka/rpg hits outer skin to absorb impact; then aerogel douses the chemical flame. better than that - coating on bottom of vehicles to deflate IED. SAVE LIVES!
I've found Elon Musk.
SUbscribe to the channel and this "might" be the next part of the trilogy. LOL bad manners.. give the last part first, then I subscribe..
So krasst man das Universum ;;; in der wir leben ...
this could be usefull for space missions to keep people heating up and you know
That's why they call it a bunny-sen burner.
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Can someone tell me what hes holding I dont see anything?
İs this can be Ozon layer
lays have more air.
I remember when I 1st watched a documentary when NASA used the aero gel on SOHO , I thought it was capturing the particles blasted off of the sun , but you said it was off a comet . Also , I remember watching another documentary on the man who " supposedly " was the 1st person to invent it , who was an Asian man . Wow , I was surprised to hear here that it was invented in the 30's . Nonetheless, my impression of the material stii is in complete amazement & awe . I knew when I 1st saw it , all the wonderful capabilities it can , & 1 day be used for ! Truely , 1 of the best inventions of my time if not the past millennium
just wondering how is it taste
Schools ordering toilet paper be like We will the whole stock !!
In english please
i wanna eat it so bad
I still cant lift that...
A cube of glass of that size with thin walls is also 99 percent air and has same weight
But it is filled with air
It looks like solid smoke.
Joseph Seed has gained weight and making aerogel? this can't be good 😲
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What a waste of chocolate
I thought the lightest solid was plastic
Air still most lightest thing in the world
Thanks information
According to director Pete Docter, this material inspired the look of the souls in Pixar's Soul movie.
I saw that! It makes sense...they look like this light airy material. Almost translucent.
@Liam the f**k does the FBI have to do with that
@M Khan why u asking this guy
I am interested in different kinds of aerogel for insulation... is there a phone number I can contact?
@IduckU FBI OPEN UP!
This tech was given to us by them
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I need aerogel
wow.
but weighing in on the market turkiyede used buckets lighter
Can you snort it?
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Is this what is sprayed in the sky?
love how he said two two instead of twenty two
Can the pores in Aerogel be backfilled with helium to the point where the solid aerogel floats in 1ATM air?
"Unfortunately,, even the lightest aerogels, even if evacuated or backfilled with helium, would be too heavy to float in air, especially if laminated to seal the outer edges of the monolith. However, a helium-backfilled aerogel can be made to float if dropped into an aquarium filled with a dense gas such as xenon." *wonders about hydrogen...*
Can I EAT it
This is the kind of smoking bunny I'm fine with.
Good to see new Inventions.... This is Exciting Stuff
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horrible test. you should never turn off burner. Its obvious that the flame is less on the air gel. need independant lab not someones basement.
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So in terms of "when will you see it in your everyday life" aerogel loudspeaker cones have been a thing for a while, e.g. Audax HD-A. That said, what they are calling "High Definition Aerogel" may be a composite, not sure.
you never got weed form my dealer its the lightest things on that planet XD he can give you 1 g and it weights o.8g :O
Imagine the feelings of the bunnies...
99.8% Air. That means it's .998 Gram Air & .002 Gram other substance. Oh, I can eat them. I would like to taste 1 Gram Aerogel
I dont even know why am I here
This was made 2 days after my birthday
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Me thinking if u surround a space ship with this we could fly threw the sun
Not a solid but a foam
Aerogel: im 99.8% air. Lays: *finally a worthy challenger.* yes im am making a meme
@Matthew Cheung *y e s*
@Liam y e s
memes so?
Ever heard of a feather? Or a small piece of tape???
Imma go to buys dome aerogel where to find some?🥴
It looks so good to eat
Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh .
Lighter than a feather?
And here all this time I thought liberal brains were the lightest solid!
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I am glad that this is in my recommend section
We can finally make an earthquake-proof house
*Joung Elon Musk*
Aerogel: is 99.8% air Lays :are you challenging me?
Copying comments be like :
i wanna bite it
Experiment One: An experiment was carried out to demonstrate the insulating power of Aerogel.
Good for PC?
Why am watchin this?
This comment section is paid by Lays...
I thoght my pp was the worlds lightest solid
That do be looking like a piece of the galaxy XD. Oh and I had a theory: they can use aerogel to go to planets and make suits and maybe a human alone can go to the bottom of the ocean without filling the intense pressure from it :D
Can I get a solid CO2 from them?