aerogel

[glona]

hears a nice chunk of aerogel its suppost to do sompthing ot the laser's beam only 1 bid happy bidding

http://cgi.ebay.com/NASA-StarDust-M...goryZ416QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

..glona..

 

[spyrorocks]

I don't get what it does exactly.

 

[Deleted member 13229]

I don't get what it does exactly.

It's aerogel! It is a gel that is made from a solid and a gas, it is 99.8% air IIRC. It is in the Guiness Book of World Records for being the least dense solid (even though I don't think it should be, because it is 99.8% gas)

 

[glona]

its the world best insilatior also

 

[glona]

and its normally expensive and this is a good chunk for cheap