Aerogel Definition

ârə-jĕl
noun
A highly porous solid formed from a gel, such as silica gel, in which the liquid is replaced with a gas.
American Heritage
A substance formed by the suspension of small bubbles of gas in a liquid or solid: the reversal of an aerosol.
Webster's New World

A porous, ultralight solid-state substance, similar to gel, in which the liquid component is replaced with gas.

Wiktionary
adjective
Designating or of a small container in which gas under pressure is used to aerate and dispense foam through a valve.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Aerogel

Noun

Singular:
aerogel
Plural:
aerogels

Origin of Aerogel

  • aero- +‎ gel

    From Wiktionary

Aerogel Sentence Examples

  • The JPL facility will produce the aerogel for the STARDUST mission and provide well controlled media properties and purity.

  • The aim of the mission is to collect particles from Comet Wild 2 using a material called aerogel.

  • Aerogel is made by high temperature and pressure critical point drying of a gel composed of colloidal silica structural units filled with solvents.

  • More than 2.4 m 2 of silica aerogel capture cells have been flown todate.

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Words Starting With

AAEAER

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LELGEL

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